Cynthia Hill ( director) Biography
Cynthia Hill is an American director and producer. She is most famous for creating, directing, and producing the television show A Chef’s Life in 2013–present, as well as the documentary films Private Violence
(2014), “The Guestworker” (2006), and “Tobacco Money, Feeds My Family” (2003). Her production company is Markay Media, based in Durham, North Carolina.
Cynthia Hill ( director) Age
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Cynthia Hill ( director) Family
She grew up in Pink Hill, North Carolina, a largely agricultural community. Many of her family members were tobacco farmers. Cynthia was raised Pentecostal, and attended the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Pink Hill. Much of her film career has primarily focused on stories from the rural South, and Eastern North Carolina specifically.
Cynthia Hill ( director) Education
He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she studied to be a pharmacist. While at UNC-CH, she met a production crew filming an episode of an accident reconstruction show in Chapel Hill. She soon becomes interested in film, making her first film for a class project about diabetes. Bill Campbell, the Dean of UNC’s Pharmacy School, encouraged her to attend a Pharmacy Administration graduate program at Auburn University, which had access to video equipment. She attended Auburn for 18 months but did not finish her degree.
Cynthia Hill ( director) Husband
Hill is happily married to a cinematographer and photographer, Rex Miller. He is cinematographer for Private Violence and A Chef’s Life.
Cynthia Hill ( director) Children
Hill and her husband are blessed with two girls and a Bernese Mountain dog named Poppy. They currently reside in Durham, North Carolina.
Cynthia Hill ( director) Height
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Cynthia Hill ( director) Career
He then began working on directing and producing her first serial television series, A Chef’s Life. Hill knew Chef Vivian Howard of the restaurant Chef & the Farmer in Kinston, North Carolina, from growing up together in Eastern North Carolina.
Hill’s sister and Howard were friends. Howard and Hill collaborated to create a documentary-style cooking show about Vivian’s journey to make a modern, upscale restaurant successful using Southern ingredients and Southern food traditions.
Each episode of the show focuses on a different ingredient. Said Hill, “Vivian and I grew up together in rural eastern North Carolina, and we created A Chef’s Life to focus on food traditions in our hometowns and her farm-to-table restaurant in Kinston, N.C.
A lot of it is about her relationship to the local purveyors of the ingredients she uses, so again, the viewer glimpses a world that not many people are privy to, or even think about.” A Chef’s Life has aired nationally on PBS from 2013-2016. Season 4 began airing in September 2016.
In 2014, Hill produced and directed Private Violence, a film following the story of two domestic abuse survivors, Deanna Walters, and Kit Gruelle. The film was created concurrently with “Survivor to Survivor,” a web-based media project Hill completed in 2011 as a resource for victims of domestic violence. Private Violence premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2014.
HBO Films and Women Make Movies acquired the rights to distribute the film. In 2017 – Hill’s company produced a behind the scenes look at a successful NASCAR family, Hendrik Motorsports Hendrick Motorsports. The series is called “Road To RaceDay” http://www.markaymedia.com/road-to-race-day.htmlIn addition to filmmaking, Hill also lectures at the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
Cynthia Hill ( director) Awards
A Chef’s Life received a Peabody Award in 2014. Hill also won a 2015 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Lifestyle/Culinary/Travel Program for the series. Private Violence won the Candescent Award at Sundance Film Festival in 2014.It also won the Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights at the 2014 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and the Silver Heart Award at the 2014 Dallas International Film Festival.
Cynthia Hill ( director) Salary
He earns an annual salary ranging between $ 56,000 – $ 135,500.
Cynthia Hill ( director) Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth $1 million- $5 million dollars.
