BIOGRAPHY
Maisie Crow is an award winning documentary filmmaker and photojournalist splitting her time between Marfa, Texas and Austin, Texas. ​
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In 2024, she co-directed Zurawaski v Texas alongside Abbie Perrault with executive producers Jennifer Lawrence, Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and received the American Bar Association Silver Gavel award for Best Documentary along with more than a dozen festival awards.
Her 2021 documentary, At the Ready premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and aired on MAX. In 2017, her documentary, Jackson, premiered on Showtime and went on to win the 2018 News and Documentary Emmy award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary.​​​
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From 2019 to 2024, she was the editor-in-chief of The Big Bend Sentinel and Presidio International newspapers in Far West Texas. Along with her husband, Max, she is the co-owner of The Sentinel coffee shop in Marfa, Texas.
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Maisie has taught photojournalism and video storytelling as an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.
SELECT AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2025 American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award | Best Documentary | Zurawski v Texas​
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2022 Peabody Award Winner | Pink House at the Center of the World
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2018 News and Documentary Emmy | Outstanding Social Issue Documentary Winner | Jackson
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2017 SIMA Awards | Best Documentary Feature | Jackson2014 News and Documentary Emmy | Nomination | The Last Clinic
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2012 Overseas Press Club Award | Best Online Video | Half Lives: The Chernobyl Workers Now
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World Press Photo | 2012 Digital Story Telling | 2nd Prize | Half Lives: The Chernobyl Workers Now
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2010 News and Documentary Emmy Nomination | A Life Alone
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2010 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass
SELECT PRESS
"How Many Abortion Documentaries Can One Director Make? As Many As It Takes" THE BOSTON GLOBE
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"Documentary Zurawski V Texas Reveals the Personal Devastation of Antiabortion Laws" VANITY FAIR
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"‘Zurawski v Texas’ Review: Galvanizing Hillary Clinton-Produced Doc Surveys the Harsh Reality of a Post-Roe World"
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"The Texas Filmmakers Who Documented the Trauma of the State’s Abortion Ban" TEXAS MONTHLY
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"To Understand the Cost of the War on Women, Look to Mississippi" MOTHER JONES
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"The Last Abortion Clinic In Mississippi" REFINERY29
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"‘At the Ready’: Film Review | Sundance 2021" THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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"‘At the Ready’ Review: This Riveting High School Doc Illuminates America’s Culture of Policing" INDIE WIRE
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"Couple becomes unlikely restaurateurs, opening cafe to keep tiny Texas town's newspaper afloat" CBS EVENING NEWS
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"Marfa’s Answer to the Collapse of Local News: Coffee and Cocktails" NEW YORK TIMES