Documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist
The intersections of mythology & justice, and identity & power.
Deborah S. Esquenazi is a documentary filmmaker, radio producer and investigative journalist based in Austin, Texas. Her first feature, Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four, follows four Latina women wrongfully convicted in San Antonio during the “Satanic panic” of the 1990s; it won a Peabody Award, a GLAAD Media Award and a Critics’ Choice Documentary Award, and was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy.
