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Karin Hayes|Director/Producer/Writer

Director/Producer Karin Hayes is the recipient of the duPont-Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast journalism for her first film, The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt (HBO/Cinemax). Hayes also produced and directed Held Hostage in Colombia, a documentary about three American contractors captured and held hostage by FARC guerrillas in Colombia, and the 2008 Target® Filmmaker Award-winning Pip & Zastrow: An American Friendship. In 2010, they co-authored the award-winning non-fiction book Hostage Nation: Colombia’s Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs, published by Knopf.

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