Anchorwoman

Director Anne Alvergue, Director and Producer Jeff Daniels

At a time of dramatic flux in the women’s movement and broadcast news, Jessica Savitch’s meteoric rise to become one of the first national news anchorwomen in America, and her struggle to retain her status, becomes a heightened lens through which to understand gender, ethnicity, power, and media in 1970s and 1980s America.

Anne Alvergue

Director

Anne is an Academy Award-nominated director whose films regularly premiere at Sundance, SXSW and Tribeca. She is best known for directing the Oscar nominated documentary, The Martha Mitchell Effect (Netflix, 2023). Her editing credits include the Emmy-nominated Love, Gilda (2018), the Emmy-nominated Body Parts (2022); and Bully.coward.victim: The Story Of Roy Cohn (2019), nominated for an Emmy and Outstanding Editing by Cinema Eye Honors.

Jeff Daniels

Director, Producer

Jeff is a multi-award-winning director/producer. His feature documentaries have premiered at top tier festivals globally, distributed theatrically in the US, Asia and Australia and broadcast internationally including Welcome to Yiddishland (SBS, 2025), Television Event (PBS/CNN, Criterion, 2023), Mother with a Gun (Netflix, 2017) and 10 Conditions of Love (ABC, 2010) – making international front page headlines (The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Australian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, The New Yorker), and optioned by Fox Searchlight.