Q&A with director Ivy Meeropol

Sunday, Jun. 7 2026, 2:30

• Ivy Meeropol premiered her HBO documentary Roy Cohn: Bully, Coward, Victim at the 2019 New York Film Festival and in 2020 the film was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Historical Documentary. She was Senior Story Producer on the CNN Films documentary The End: Inside the Last Days of the Obama White House, which premiered at the National Archives in Washington, DC, and was one of the highest rated of CNN’s original films. Ivy’s debut film, Heir to an Execution (HBO), explored the legacy of her grandparents Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. It premiered at Sundance and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. Kenneth Turan, of the Los Angeles Times, called it, “An exceptional documentary... a compelling emotional narrative laced with explosive political material.” Ivy was a Sundance Institute Fellow and has been awarded grants from the Sundance Documentary Fund, the NY State Council for the Arts, and the MacArthur Foundation. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. Her feature documentary After the Bite, about the explosion of great white sharks and seals on Cape Cod, premiered on HBO in July 2023. Her latest project is Ask E. Jean.

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