Ellen Goosenberg-Kent
ELLEN GOOSENBERG KENT
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER, GOLDEN EGG ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
Ellen Goosenberg Kent is a multi-award winning documentary filmmaker. In a career spanning two decades, she has earned three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award and numerous other honors for excellence in non-fiction, public affairs and children’s television.Committed to the plight of young people in crisis, Goosenberg Kent recently completed the HBO documentary, I Have Tourette’s But Tourette’s Doesn’t Have Me, scheduled for broadcast later this year. This comes on the heels of a 2004 Primetime Emmy for her work on Happy to be Nappy, a special about embracing one’s differences in the face of daunting obstacles. In recent years, Goosenberg Kent has directed and produced a number of eye opening, critically acclaimed films for HBO about adolescents confronting some of life’s toughest challenges at tender ages. Middle School Confessions, hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, was lauded for its “shocking yet ultimately hopeful stories” of young people on the fast track to self-destruction. Reading Your Heart Out featured the work of a group of gifted, alienated adolescents who confront their demons – and their parents – at an intensely personal poetry slam. It earned honors at the Toronto Film Festival and Viewfinders International Film Festival for Youth. The Emmy nominated Brett Killed Mom: A Sister’s Diary traced the unraveling of a perfect family in the face of carefully hidden physical and psychological abuse. Talking Sex featured a series of uncensored conversations about risk taking and survival in the face of AIDS. The Emmy and Peabody award winning How Do You Spell God? looked at little people tackling life’s big questions; and Talked to Death, a CableAce award winner, investigated the unethical talk show practices that drove one young man to murder.
For HBO and the World Wildlife Fund, Goosenberg Kent directed and produced the Emmy award winning, Going, Going Gone: Animals in Danger, which examined the international crisis of endangered animals and their habitats.
For A & E, Goosenberg Kent produced the two-hour primetime documentary, Models: The Real Skinny. This verite look at the difficult choices faced by young women in this cutthroat business showed graphically how the road to success has its costs. Other documentaries for the network included two episodes of The Competition: Texas Cheerleading and Mountain Man Rendezvous, for which she served as Executive Producer.
Goosenberg Kent co-created and executive produced the Disney Channel original series Out of the Box, produced numerous specials on women’s health for Lifetime Television and was Director of News and Specials at VH-1. She is a member of the Director’s Guild of America.
