Ellen Spiro

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Ellen Spiro
Spiro in 2016
Born	New Brunswick, New Jersey, US
Parent(s)	Jack and Marilyn Spiro of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Ellen Spiro is an American documentary filmmaker. She is a producer and director of the television documentary Are the Kids Alright?, which won an Emmy Award in 2005.^[1]

Spiro is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where she has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in documentary, experimental film, and music film production in the Department of Radio-TV-Film.^[2] She is also a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley.^[2]