Robin Honan

Robin Honan is an Academy Award-nominated documentary producer and filmmaker, and produced on the Oscar-winning documentary FREEHELD (2008) as well as the 26-minute short BORN SWEET (2010). Her Oscar-nominated, HBO film MONDAYS AT RACINE (2013) celebrates a Long Island hair salon that offers free services to women undergoing cancer treatment, helping them restore a sense of beauty following the ravages of chemotherapy. Honan also produced the 2009 Sundance Channel feature length documentary LIVING THE LEGACY, which documents a year in the life of a free private school for underprivileged students founded by chocolatier Milton Hershey over one hundred years ago.

As a Producer/Director with award-winning DB Productions in New York City, Honan crafts intimate profiles and identity films for a wide range of non-profit and corporate clients. In 2012, she produced the short documentary FIRE WITH FIRE, which currently has over 3 million views on YouTube, and tells the tale of a renegade oncologist who has cured leukemia in ten patients, including three children, by using a disarmed form of the HIV virus to attack cancer cells. More recently, Honan directed and produced films for a landmark Alzheimer’s clinical trial, as well as short documentaries about Head Start-Trauma Smart and The New York Foundling.