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Nila Bogue:

The Choice of a Lifetime: Returning From the Brink of Suicide

Nila Bogue grew up in the midwest including Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. She received a B.A. in 1983 from Oberlin College, where she majored in Sociology-Anthropology and minored in Political Science and Theater. She attended a new master's program in Visual Anthropology offered by the Department of Anthropology and the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. She received her MA in 1987. Her master's thesis film, The Heavenly Voice of China follows a group of immigrants as they struggle to pass a beloved traditional art, Peking Opera, down to their American-born children. The film won awards at the Vitas Folklore Festival, The Brooklyn Arts Council Festival, and the East Bay Video Festival.

While a student at USC, Bogue won a national FOCUS Award for Best Documentary Editing (Addressless). After graduating, she landed a job as the assistant editor on The Great San Francisco Earthquake, the premier show for The American Experience.

In 1989, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where she worked as an editor on independent documentary films including the award-winning Why Do These Kids Love School? (Fadiman Films); Concentric Media's award-winning trilogy on reproductive rights: When Abortion Was Illegal (Academy Award nominee), From Danger to Dignity (Emmy Award), and The Fragile Promise of Choice (Gold Apple); as well as two New Day films: Voices from Inside about women in prison and their children on the outside by Karina Epperlein, and Still Missing about children abducted by strangers by Theresa Tollini.

Other independent films she worked on include Allie Light and Irving Saraf's Rachel's Daughters: Searching for the Causes of Breast Cancer (HBO broadcast); David Brown's Surfing for Life; and two films by New Day member Andy Abrahams Wilson, Bubbeh Lee and Me (HBO broadcast); and Positive Motion: Challenging AIDS Through Dance.

Bogue's New Day film, The Choice of a Lifetime: Returning from the Brink of Suicide, was one of two films ranked "Outstanding Documentary" by the Western Psychology Association and was awarded a Silver Apple by the National Educational Media Network. The Choice of a Lifetime premiered on KQED-San Francisco and has aired on PBS stations throughout the country.

Ms. Bogue lives in San Francisco with her husband and son.

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