Heather O’ Neill - Journalist, CNN

Thoughtful Thursday underwritten by Guild Hall featured Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Heather O’ Neill ahead of her full-length feature documentary directorial debut film’s showing at Bay Street Theater in conjunction with Hamptons Doc Fest. “No Ordinary Life” is a collection of footage from – And interviews with – five pioneering female war photojournalists from CNN following in the footsteps of such still photographers as Margaret Bourke-White. We discuss Heather’s process paring down hundreds of hours of footage into a roughly 70-minute film, as well as the unshakable bond forged between these five incredible figures in journalism.