Dont' Fence Me In

Mary Elaine Evans is an award-winning documentary producer. She has directed and produced numerous independent films, magazine-style television programs, and radio documentaries. Her feature-length documentary, ANDY, aired on PBS, won two Emmy Awards, and took home a bronze medal at the Columbus Film Festival; it was also a Cine Golden Eagle Award finalist and an official selection at both the New York Film Festival and the Texas Film Festival, where it won best in category. She  co-directed the documentary WE ARE THE AVERAGE with celebrated filmmaker Christian Blackwood for West German television and wrote, produced, and hosted forty-two episodes of the REAL-TO-REEL television program. She has been honored by the Mayor of Columbus for her efforts to elevate the prominence of local filmmaking as part of the city’s first “Independent Filmmaker’s Day.” Most recently, she received a Best Producer nod for this film from the Prague International Indie Film Festival and won Best Historical Film at the Toronto International Women Film Festival. 

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Her daughter-collaborator Sabrina Evans-Renkar is an independent writer, producer, & editor. She holds an MFA in Film from Ohio University and is an Assistant Professor of Media at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. She was recently awarded Best Editing for her work on this film by the Prague International Indie Film Festival.