Marisa Fox

Marisa Fox - , Director known for his work in such projects: «My Underground Mother» (2025),

Marisa Fox is an award-winning journalist and the film director of "My Underground Mother." As a correspondent for Haaretz, New York Newsday, New York and a contributor to The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, CNN, Forward and The New York Times, she has reported on major news stories from 9/11 to the opioid crisis, from January 6th to October 7th , and is a “she source” for Gloria Steinem’s Women’s Media Center, specializing in gender, genocide, wartime sexual trauma and radical extremism. She also served as a magazine editor and cover story and feature writer for InStyle, O, Elle, Billboard, Details, The Hollywood Reporter and a television producer for FX, MTV, Vh1 and Channel 13-WNET. Her work has earned awards and nominations from the American Society of Magazine Editors. "My Underground Mother," Fox’s directorial debut, won the Best Feature Film at PJFM's Docs & Dialogue 2026, Best Documentary jury award at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival, Best Holocaust Documentary at Boca International Film Festival and led her to curate one of the only women’s Holocaust monuments and a digital exhibit of women’s testimonies with USC’s Shoah Foundation. She is currently writing a book about her search for her mother’s missing past.

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