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Mary Mazzio, an award-winning documentary film director, Olympian, and former law firm partner, is Founder and CEO of 50 Eggs, Inc., an independent film production company. Mary wrote, directed and produced the highly-acclaimed award-winning films: TEN9EIGHT, A Hero for Daisy, Lemonade Stories, Apple Pie as well as we are BlackRock. She has just completed The Apple Pushers, narrated by Edward Norton and funded by the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.
The Apple Pushers follows the inspiring stories of five immigrant pushcart vendors who are rolling fresh fruits and vegetables into the poorer neighborhoods of New York - neighborhoods where finding a ripe, red apple is a serious challenge and where obesity rates are skyrocketing. Through the lens of their powerful and deeply personal stories, the film examines such hot-button issues as the obesity crisis, immigration, entrepreneurship, and what it really takes to achieve the American Dream. In early January, the U.S. Department of Agriculture hosted an exclusive screening for food policy-makers, health advocates, and top administration staffers in Washington, D.C.
TEN9EIGHT was theatrically released in a first-of-its-kind partnership with AMC Theatres (in New York, LA, Washington DC, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami and Kansas City), and broadcast on BET/Viacom from 2010-2012, coinciding with the release of a companion book to the film from Scholastic and a screening at the White House Summit hosted by the US Department of Education and the Library of Congress. New York Times Columnist, Tom Friedman, said this about the film: “Obama should arrange for this movie to be shown in every classroom in America. It is the most inspirational, heartwarming film you will ever see.”
A Hero for Daisy was hailed by The New York Times as a “landmark film” and “fantastic” by Sports Illustrated; “remarkable” by NPR; aired nationwide on ESPN, Oxygen, WGBH, and WTSN-Canada; was invited to screen at the Smithsonian; and is in thousands of classrooms across the country. Apple Pie aired nationwide on ESPN to critical acclaim, and was called “illuminating – told with deftness and emotion… priceless” by The New York Times; “heartwarming” by Los Angeles Times; “fantastic”- NPR, and “excellent” by CNN. The film was also a recommended pick in both Entertainment Weekly and TV Guide. Lemonade Stories, which aired nationwide on CNNfn (and which aired nationwide in Latin America, the UK, Israel, the Middle East, New Zealand, and Hong Kong), was the subject of cover stories by USA Today (complete with a trailer and photos on USA Today’s splash page), Forbes.com, The Christian Science Monitor, ABC News.com, as well as featured on NPR, Bloomberg Radio, and in Fast Company.
Mazzio, an Olympic athlete (1992-Rowing), is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Georgetown Law School. She is a recipient of several awards including the Women's Sports Foundation Journalism Award, a Gracie Award, a Myra Sadker Gender Equity Curriculum Award, a Henry Luce Foundation Fellowship (to Korea), the Mary Lyon Award (from Mount Holyoke College), and a Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellowship (to France). Mary, formerly a partner with the law firm of Brown Rudnick, has served on a number of Boards of Directors including Shackleton Schools (which serve students in danger of dropping out of high school), Sojourner House (a homeless shelter), The Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, The Head of the Charles Regatta, The National Rowing Foundation, and World T.E.A.M Sports (supporting disabled athletes). She has also served as a judge for the Sports Emmys. The Schlesinger Library at Harvard University has requested all of Mazzio’s papers for its collection.
Mazzio has also been the keynote speaker at numerous events and ceremonies (both corporate and educational) across the nation, including: the State of Nebraska Convention on Economic Development; the NCAA Title IX Convention; The National Coalition of Girls' Schools Convention, the Women's Sports Foundation Convention, the National Association of Collegiate Women's Athletic Administrators' Convention, and USA Hockey's Patty Kazmaier Awards (celebrating the best collegiate hockey player in the country) as well as hundreds of events at universities and high schools across the country.
Mary is willing to disclose her height and true hair color - but refuses to disclose her golf handicap, particularly after her performance at the Drew Bledsoe Celebrity Golf Tournament where she participated as a celebrity (whom nobody knew). She was, however, heckled by real celebrities – NFL great Lynn Swann and producer Bobby Farrelly (There's Something About Mary) for having brand new golf shoes. She heckled back.
Mary and her work have been featured in The New York Times, The Financial Times, Fortune, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, Sports Illustrated, The Los Angeles Times, Business Week, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Forbes.com, MSNMoney.com, ABC News Now, CNN Sunday Morning, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox Business News, PBS Nightly News Report, CNN Headline News, NPR (On Point, The Connection, It’s Only A Game), Oxygen, ESPN’s Sports Center, Baseball Tonight, and Cold Pizza, HuffingtonPost.com, TheAtlantic.com, GOOD Magazine, Yahoo News and The Washington Times, among others. Mary’s story has been chronicled in the books One Person, Multiple Careers (by former NY Times columnist Marci Alboher) and 168 Hours (by USA Today writer Laura Vanderkam). Mazzio’s work has been supported by The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, The Kauffman Foundation, New Balance, Welch’s, BlackRock, The John Templeton Foundation, Staples, CVS, Babson College, Life Is Good, Nike and Clif Bar among others.
She resides in Massachusetts with her husband, Jay Manson, and two children.
