Eva Lewis
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Eva Lewis is an independent media maker, producer, editor and storyteller.
Eva Lewis is an independent media maker, producer, editor and storyteller. Since 2006, she has lived and worked creating media in many conflict and post-conflict zones. She spent time working in independent media in rural El Salvador, Colombia, and the Gaza Strip. She worked in New York City as staff person for the grassroots media network Deep Dish TV and at the independent news program Democracy Now! She was a long time member of the NY based video collective Paper Tiger TV and the Tucson based video collective Pan Left Productions. Her work has been featured on PBS, Counter Punch and Truth Out among other outlets.
From 2013-2024 she was based in Arivaca, AZ, a community on the US/Mexico border. There she directed, produced and edited the feature documentary, Undeterred, about local struggles to provide crisis relief and organize for border demilitarization. The film was awarded Best Documentary at the Image This Women's International Film Festival, Best Arizona FIlm at the Chandler International Film Festival and the John Michels Award for Activist Film at the Big Muddy Film Festival, among others.