Laurie Kahn

Director/Producer Laurie Kahn's first film, A Midwife's Tale, was based on the 18th century diary of midwife Martha Ballard and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard. It won film festival awards and a national EMMY for Outstanding Non-Fiction. Her film TUPPERWARE! was broadcast in more than 20 countries, won the George Foster Peabody Award and was nominated for a national Best Nonfiction Director EMMY. She also produced an early, award-winning interactive website, DoHistory.org, that takes its users into the process of piecing together the lives of ordinary people from the past. Before she founded her own production company, Blueberry Hill Productions, Laurie worked on the Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965, The American Experience, FRONTLINE'S Crisis in Central America, and All Things Considered. She has taught at Northeastern University, Brandeis University, and Tufts University, guest lectured around the country, and is a Resident Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis. Laurie is currently the Project Director of The Popular Romance Project, which includes Love Between the Covers, a feature-length film about the diverse women who write, read, and love romance fiction, and the vast global community they've built. The Popular Romance Project also includes a conference on the deep roots of romance fiction and its future in the digital age at the Library of Congress, a large interactive website, PopularRomanceProject.org, exploring popular romance across time and across cultures, and a nationwide series of Popular Romance Project programs in public libraries.