Maisie Crow is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and photojournalist splitting her time between Austin and Marfa, Texas.
About
Maisie Crow is a documentary filmmaker based in Texas. Her films have aired on HBO and Showtime. Most recently, her documentary film Zurawski v Texas premiered at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival.
Her 2021 documentary At the Ready premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and can now be seen on MAX. In 2018, her documentary, Jackson, received a News and Documentary Emmy award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary. The film won 15 film festival awards for best documentary and audience favorite.
In 2022, she was part of This American Lifes reporting team on the Peabody-winning episode The Pink House at the Center of the World. Her short films The Last Clinic and A Life Alone were both nominated for News and Documentary Emmy awards. Her work has also been recognized by the Overseas Press Club, American Society of Magazine Editors, Pictures of the Year International and World Press Photo.
Maisie has taught photojournalism and video storytelling as an adjunct professor at Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.
In 2019, Maisie and her husband took the helm of The Big Bend Sentinel and Presidio International newspapers in Far West Texas, building a community gathering space around the publications to help bolster readership and revenue.
