Author, journalist and documentary-maker Holly Morris’s most recent film, Exposure, follows 11 women from the Arab world and the West as they ski to the North Pole in a powerful story of resilience and global citizenry. The American is touring the film here this month in association with the recent Doc Edge film festival.
You fill your life with adventure, telling stories from Cuba, Chernobyl and Iran. What were your early influences?
My parents were both sportscasters. Mum was also very active politically and Dad had been an NFL footballer player, so I grew up with an appreciation of the outdoors and an awareness of the power of media. We lived on a quasi-farm outside Chicago, in Illinois, so it was a sort of suburban, regular, middle-class
