Laura Hanna

Laura Hanna is a filmmaker who, with Astra Taylor, produces short-form documentaries for The Nation. Their New York-based production company, Hidden Driver, specializes in feature-length and short-form films focusing on intellectual, cultural and political issues

A California native, she has worked in all stages of production, as an editor, producer, sound recordist, post-production sound editor, mixer and designer. She is currently directing the documentary feature Megapolis.

Currently

  • No Bailout!

    September 29, 2008

    A look at the passionate protests on Wall Street in opposition to the $700 billion bailout proposal.

  • Winter Soldier

    March 24, 2008

    In three days of wrenching public testimony in Washington, DC, Iraq War veterans shared the horrors of war.

2007

  • Christian Parenti: Congo Diary

    October 3, 2007

    The Nation's international correspondent journeys deep into the heart of the Congo Basin woodlands to see how a massive logging boom is decimating the world's second-largest tropical forest.

  • The Shock Doctrine

    September 18, 2007

    In this VideoNation report, Nation columnist Naomi Klein explains how after 9/11 the Bush Administration launched a new security economy, driven by the notion of an endless war against an undefined evil.

  • Bringing the War Home

    June 1, 2007

    Pointing imaginary guns and roughing up "Iraqi civilians", antiwar veterans brought the realities of the Iraq debacle to Manhattan, in a Memorial Day protest that turned Times Square into a combat zone.

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Podcast

RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 11/10/08
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)

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» Act Now!

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» Editor's Cut

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» And Another Thing

Election Updates --Good News and Not | Details on some ongoing stories
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