Biography
The American filmmaker Chana Gazit, born in 1956, began her career in television production in the mid-1980s. From the 1990s onward, she worked as a producer, writer, and director. For the acclaimed historical documentary series "American Experience," she created multi-part films on Lyndon B. Johnson (1991) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (1994). Between 1997 and 2016, she received four nominations from the Writers Guild of America for her screenplays for other films in the series. Her documentary "The Pill" (2003, co-directed with David Steward), which explores the development of the birth control pill, was shown in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to win an Emmy Award.
Gazit's other documentary work includes contributions to series such as "Slavery & the Making of America" (US, 2005) and "American Masters." For the latter, she co-directed "Hannah Arendt – Facing Tyranny" (US/DE/PL, 2025) with Jeff Bieber, which was broadcast in the United States in the summer of 2025. The film was theatrically released in Germany in the fall of the same year under the title " Hannah Arendt – Denken ist gefährlich."