Cinda Firestone Fox

Cinda Firestone Fox wears many hats. She's a documentary filmmaker, writer, journalist, playwright and liberal activist and heiress to the Firestone Rubber Company fortune.

From a young age, Cinda Firestone Fox decided that life was going to be lived by her rules. When she was just 15, and attending the famous boarding school Miss Porter's, in Farmington, Connecticut, she started a campaign to change the school's policy on church attendance from mandatory to voluntary. Thus began a lifelong crusade to mold the world, and its institutions, to conform to her visions and ideas.

During her time at Sarah Lawrence College, Cinda joined a strike committee that shut down the school to protest the Vietnam War. She was jailed for her participation in the Columbia University Anti-Vietnam War uprising, and during her senior year, as editor for the school paper, Cinda led an unsuccessful crusade to oust the current University President because of differing philosophies.

Upon graduation, Cinda began working as a journalist for the Liberation News Service, a radical, liberal news service used by various community newspapers and left-wing organizations.

Her big break came while interviewing Emile de Antonio, where she learned he was looking for an assistant. Cinda began working with Emile right away and in short time, she made her first film, at the young age of 23, documenting the events of the Attica prison takeover. Attica proved to be a landmark film, not just for Cinda, but for the history of film as well.

Cinda's devotion to storytelling led her to make 3 more documentary films after Attica: South Beach, Retirement and Mountain People. Although she didn't realize it at the time, her intense work on Attica made her ill, and Cinda retreated to heal.

When she turned 35, a fully healed Cinda decided to pursue her dream of becoming involved in the theater. It was during this time that she met, and married, Manny Fox, who had just produced the hit Broadway musical, Sophisticated Ladies.

Cinda wrote 3 original musicals for children's theater, and most recently wrote a new musical comedy that's soon to appear on Broadway, Family Fortune, with Puerto Rican composer, Alberto Carrion. She has also authored several screenplays including: Madam, the Story of Madam C.J. Walker, the first female and the first African American self made millionaire, Te Quiero, a romantic murder mystery set in Puerto Rico and Fox Hunt, a romantic comedy concerning the pursuit by a poor accountant from Brooklyn of a rich, beautiful woman who invites him to go fox hunting.

Today, Cinda lives in Puerto Rico and fights to save endangered sea turtles.

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