Virginia Cotts
- Producer
Virginia Cotts is a documentary filmmaker dedicated to making films
with strong social content. She got her start in the 1980s when she
made television commercials and short films with director Ed Bianchi.
In 1991 she began producing documentaries for Academy Award-winning
actress and director Lee Grant. Their collaboration continues to this
day and has resulted in "The Gun Deadlock," which looks at women in the
gun control debate, "Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America," and
"Say It, Fight It, Cure It," about breast cancer. These were aired on
Lifetime Television for Women. She and Ms Grant made "Women on
Trial,""Battered" and "...A Father...A Son...Once Upon a Time in
Hollywood," the story of Kirk and Michael Douglas, for HBO. For
journalist Vladimir Posner, Ms. Cotts produced "VIP," a biography
series for Channel One in Europe and Russia.
She wrote, produced and directed two independent films: "Boomers," about the generation of women who came of age in the 60s, and "Auto:Body," about the women inmates in the domestic violence program at the Bedford Correctional Facility.
Ms. Cotts is a graduate of Antioch College where she majored in Political Economy.
She wrote, produced and directed two independent films: "Boomers," about the generation of women who came of age in the 60s, and "Auto:Body," about the women inmates in the domestic violence program at the Bedford Correctional Facility.
Ms. Cotts is a graduate of Antioch College where she majored in Political Economy.