Tessa Moran is the co-founder of DC-based Eidolon Films, an award-winning documentary film production company that produces independent broadcast films and videos for non-profit organizations. Together with her husband and Filmmaker of the Month Ben Crosbie, she directed Fate of a Salesman about the struggles of suit salesmen at a 60 year old store in gentrifying Washington, DC. The film aired nationally on the PBS series America Reframed in 2014, won a 2013 Capital Area Emmy Award, the audience award at the Annapolis Film Festival and the Juror's Choice Award at the Black Maria Film Festival.
Tessa’s first film Keeping the Kibbutz aired on PBS WORLD in 2012, won a Telly Award, and led an ambitious screening series throughout museums, Jewish Community Centers, synagogues and small theaters in the US & Europe. She's presently working on a new documentary film titled Las Vigilancias about an indigenous community in Mexico fighting to preserve their forest home, which they share with the threatened monarch butterfly.
Tessa's award-winning client projects are produced on behalf of Georgetown University, Results for Development Institute, Malteser International, Washington Home & Hospice, Franciscan Charities, the Family Health and Birth Center, among others.
Prior to founding Eidolon Films, Tessa worked as a reporter covering health care policy and economics for Thomson Reuters. She's a graduate of Georgetown University and currently serves on the Board of the Directors of Docs In Progress, a local arts non-profit that supports documentary filmmakers.
Visit www.eidololonfilms.com to see more of Tessa’s work.
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