#GivingTuesday ICP Alumni Spotlight: Nadia Hallgren
In the spirit of #GivingTuesday (December 1st), ICP is spotlighting a few of our Community Programs alumni. Please join us in celebrating #GivingTuesday by sharing these posts, and consider donating to support our award-winning programs for young photographers.
A graduate of the ICP at THE POINT program in 2000, Nadia Hallgren is an award-winning cinematographer and filmmaker from the Bronx, NY. Her film credits include Gillian Laub’s Southern Rights, Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, the Academy Award nominated Trouble the Water, and HBO’s War Don Don. Nadia has shot commercially for networks including Sundance Channel, IFC, MTV, BET, VH1 and OWN.
![Nadia Hallgren visits a recent ICP at THE POINT class to discuss her work. Nadia Hallgren visits a recent ICP at THE POINT class to discuss her work.](https://icpcommunitypartnerships.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/20151027_week5_rtull_03.jpg?w=584&h=389)
Hallgren continues to stay involved with ICP by meeting with young Community Programs participants and discussing her films and career.
Nadia describes her time at ICP:
I was first introduced to photography as a teenager through a community program that ICP has in the Bronx where I grew up. That introduction was the most incredible discovery of my life, a medium that married art, images, and social justice.
My first black and white print was the only thing I had ever made my whole life, it changed the way I saw myself and everything around me. From that moment I dreamed of working in documentary, and ICP's community program laid the foundation for that dream to come true.
To see Nadia Hallgren’s cinematography in action, watch a clip of HBO’s War Don Don (below), a feature documentary that profiles the controversial war crimes trial of a rebel leader in Sierra Leone.