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CounterPoint Films is a critically-acclaimed film and television production company, founded in 1998 by Oscar Nominee Paola di Florio to produce both nonfiction and narrative programming.
Counterpoint Films founder Paola di Florio is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated filmmaker and television producer whose work has featured extraordinary individuals and the triumph of...
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Paola di Florio is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated director, writer, producer and Sundance Jury Prize-nominee. An NYU graduate, she’s the founder of Counterpoint films––a vanguard in the conscious media space, following the launch of top grossing documentary Awake: The Life of Yogananda.
Paola di Florio is known for Home of the Brave (2004), Speaking in Strings (1999) and Awake: The Life of Yogananda (2014).
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Paolo di Florio & Nancy Dickenson Home of the Brave is about the only white woman murdered in the civil rights movement in America and why we DON’T know who she is. Told through the eyes of her children, the film follows the on-going struggle of an American family to survive the consequences of their mother’s heroism and the mystery behind ...
Home of the Brave: Directed by Paola di Florio. With Julie Stevens, Stockard Channing, Molly Howe, Viola Gregg Liuzzo. Documentary on the civil rights activist, Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered in 1965 as she campaigned for black suffrage in Selma, Alabama, and its effect on her family.
Film. Currently in Theatrical Release. Directed by Paola di Florio & Lisa Leeman. Produced by Peter Rader, Paola di Florio, and Lisa Leeman. AWAKE: The Life of Yogananda is an unconventional biography about the East Indian mystic who brought yoga and meditation to the West in the 1920s.
