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Mia Kirshner
Actress/Social Activist
Mia Kirshner is best known for her work as a television and film actress. She has played leading roles in Love and Human Remains, Exotica and The Crow: City of Angels as well as the award-winning television series 24. In 2008, Kirshner published I Live Here with Random House/Pantheon. In the book, she documents women and children refugees in Chechnya, Ciudad Juárez and Malawi. It was co-produced with Adbusters collaborators Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons and features comic and graphic work by Joe Sacco and Phoebe Gloeckner. Proceeds from I Live Her Here go to Amnesty International. Kirschner studied Russian literature and 20th-century film industry at McGill University in Montreal.
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Mia Kirshner knew a greater awareness of human rights could be inspired through art.
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The money for I Live Here came mostly out of Mia Kirshner’s pocket, but she established the Foundation to fund future stories.
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Mia Kirshner’s guide to hard work and creativity.
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Mia Kirshner had to elicit good writing from her subjects and shoot video for http://www.i-live-here.com
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Mia Krishner found unexpected grace and poise in a victim of an AIDS- ravaged country.
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At Mae Sot, Mia Kirshner witnessed the sex trade up close.
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Mia Kirshner wanted to give a voice to the voiceless via a graphic novel.