Long Island LitFest Presents
An Afternoon with
SHEILA NEVINS:
President, HBO
Documentary Films
Sunday, February 25, 4
pm
Tickets include a copy
of You Don’t Look Your Age…And Other Fairy Tales
Author talk, audience
Q&A, reception and book signing
$35 Members | $45
Public
The Sky Room Cafe will be closed all day the day of this event.
Sheila Nevins is the New
York Times bestselling author of the humor book You Don’t Look Your Age… and Other
Fairy Tales, published by Flatiron Books. She is also president of
HBO Documentary Films. Nevins is responsible for overseeing the development and
production of all documentaries for HBO, HBO2 and Cinemax. She was named
to this position in February 2004. As an executive producer or producer,
she has received 32 Primetime Emmy Awards, 34 News and Documentary
Emmys and 42 George Foster Peabody Awards. During her tenure,
HBO’s critically acclaimed documentaries have gone on to win 26 Academy
Awards, the most recently of which was “A Girl in the River: The
Price of Forgiveness” in 2016. Nevins, 78, has been honored with several
prestigious career achievement awards including the 2009
Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and was made
an NYU Tisch School of the Arts Honoree.
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Photo Credit: Brigitte Lacombe
