Iron Ladies of Liberia

United States

2007

77 Min

Color

English

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DIR Daniel Junge, Siatta Scott Johnson

PROD Henry Ansbacher, Micah Schaffer

CAST Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Beatrice Munah Sieh, Antoinette Sayeh

Following nearly 20 years of civil war, Liberia elected its first woman president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, in 2005. This compelling documentary follows her and the strong women she appointed to top positions through their first year in office. A Harvard-educated economist, Johnson Sirleaf received the nickname “Iron Lady” because of her unyielding determination to reform and rebuild her corrupt, debt-ridden, war-torn country.

Director

Daniel Junge

Daniel Junge is an Oscar award winning documentary filmmaker. His first feature-length film, CHIEFS, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival and broadcast nationally on PBS. His subsequent feature, IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and aired on over 50 broadcasters worldwide including PBS and the BBC. THEY KILLED SISTER DOROTHY, his third feature film, won the Audience and Grand Jury Prizes at the South by Southwest Film Festival before broadcasting on HBO and earning a 2010 Emmy nomination for Best Investigative Journalism. Junge’s film THE LAST CAMPAIGN OF GOVERNOR BOOTH GARDNER was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short in 2010. His most recent film, SAVING FACE, also for HBO, won Best Documentary Short in 2012. Junge lives in Colorado with his wife and daughter and large dog.

Siatta Scott Johnson

Siatta Scott Johnson was born in Buchanan, Liberia in 1974 and raised in rural Grand Bassa County. She fled Grand Bassa in the early 1990s with the outbreak of war and eventually settled in Monrovia, where she was living during the end of the civil war in 2003. Scott Johnson earned her B.A. in mass communications from the University of Liberia after the school re-opened following the war. She holds certificates in political reporting from the University of Liberia and in media from the Press Union of Liberia/UNMIL, and a diploma in journalism from the Liberia Institute of Journalism. She has five years of experience as a reporter and producer at DCTV, one of Liberia’s only broadcast television stations, and is a founding member of Omuahtee Africa Media. She speaks English, Liberia Dialect English and Bassa fluently and is the mother of two. —itvs