HM Alumna Regina K. Scully '81 Wins
2021 Amicus Award
A new documentary, "Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words," produced by Horace Mann School alumna Regina Kulik Scully '81, provides an enlightening look at the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It premiered March 1, 2021, on Starz. The film is among the latest of the over 200 socially impactful documentary movies Scully has produced.
Scully – who in January 2021 received the International Documentary Association's (IDA) Amicus Award, the genre's most prestigious recognition – is the founder and CEO of Artemis Rising Foundation, an organization dedicated to transforming our culture through media, arts, and education. She has produced Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated documentaries about some of our era's most pressing social issues and inspiring figures, including "The Invisible War," "Won't You Be My Neighbor?," "Driving While Black," and "Miss Representation." Scully is also the Founding Sponsor of the Athena Film Festival (NYC), which highlights women in filmmaking, and the co-founder of Making Waves, a public charter school in Northern California aimed at assisting low-income students. She is a former HM Board of Trustees member.
Scully's greatest labor of love, however, may be her recent short, "What Would Sophia Loren Do?" Released in February 2021 on Netflix, the film's title echoes the go-to question that Scully's mother, Nancy "Vincenza Careri" Kulik, applied to many of life's daily problems. As Netflix explains, "in this delightful short documentary, an Italian American grandmother and film buff finds strength and joy in the life of her screen idol, Sofia Loren." The film touches on the life of the producer's brother, the late Dominic Kulik '82, who passed away unexpectedly from injuries sustained while surfing in March 2016. HM's new swimming pool is named in memory of this champion swimmer and former HM Trustee. "What Would Sophia Loren Do?" feels personal to those who know the Kulik-Scully family, but to Scully, "while the film is about my Italian American mother and Sophia Loren, it's also a universal film about love, loss, family, resilience and joy! I hope you all can watch it."
Regina Scully Kulik '81 (Photo: Getty Images)