Publications and Press of Note
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
The Documentary Filmmaker’s Workbook: Directing and Producing Documentary, Vervante Press, October 1, 2024.
“The Silent Ones,” in Pangyrus, November 19, 2024.
“Every Documentary Filmmaker Needs to Know this Statistic , in No Film School, November 19, 2024.
“True Conspiracies: The Legacy of J. Edgar Hoover and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” in American Conspiracism: An Interdisciplinary Exploration, Routledge Press, July 2, 2024.
“The Fugitive’s Paradox” in The Sycamore Review, November 2023.
“The Bar, 1982” in The Nassau Review, May, 2023. Nominee for the 2024 Pushcart Prize in Nonfiction.
“Surveillance and Subversion of Student Activists 1967-1970: Standoff in St. Louis,” in Left in the Midwest, University of Missouri Press. Hardback edition January, 2023 Paperback edition, May 2023.
“The Promise,” in Minerva Rising, Issue 19, Fall 2020.
"SILVERDOCS” in So You Want to Start a Film Festival, ed. Jon Gann, CreateSpace Publishers, Dec. 2015.
“Momma Doc: The Filmmaker as Homemaker” in International Documentary Magazine, January, 2005
“Historians and Film: Taking History Off the Page and Putting it on the Screen,” in Public History, Krieger Press, 1999 2nd ed.
A Paralyzing Fear: The Triumph Over Polio in America, Nina Gilden Seavey, Jane Smith, Paul Wagner, TV Books, 1998
“Frozen Out By Race,” Op Ed in The Washington Post, Oct. 6, 1991.
SELECT PRESS
Seavey v. Department of Justice et al makes the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s “Decade of Highlights” of bad acts by the government in the FOIA process. Obviously not a great list to have to be on but glad we pursued the truth to the bitter end.
Standard Productions, Jesse Koepke Interview with Nina Gilden Seavey. 2024
“Probing Old Wounds: Filmmaker Nina Seavey Chronicles The Polio Epidemic”, The Washington Post
“Five for Filmmaking: A Quintet of Documentarians Discuss Career and Life Choices”, International Documentary Magazine
“All the Life Surrounding Death in the Afternoon” - Review of The Matador , The New York Times
“Once a Fear Beyond Fear Itself” - Review of A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America , The New York Times