Holly Morris

Director, Exposure

For two decades Holly Morris has told, and championed, pro-woman, cross-cultural stories on the global stage. She is an internationally known filmmaker, author, and presenter (Adventure Divas, Globe Trekker, Treks in a Wild World). Her last feature film, The Babushkas of Chernobyl (“Beautiful, affectionate and stirring”– NYT) premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, where it won the Jury Award for Directing, the first of nearly two dozen awards received before being broadcast world-wide. The film, based on her print journalism, is about a defiant community of women who live
inside Ukraine’s radioactive “Exclusion Zone. ” The story is also the basis of her popular TED Talk.