JACQUELINE (Jac) GARES is a filmmaker and television producer. She directed and produced FREE CeCe! (2016) with Laverne Cox. It won the Audience Favorite Feature Documentary award at BlackStar film festival among many others. It has since been adopted by university libraries and is used in classrooms around the world. As supervising producer for IN THE LIFE on public television, her work garnered awards from NLGJA, GLAAD, and Webbys. GARES also produced specials and documentaries for the History Channel, Food Network, USA Networks after working for PBS's non-fiction film showcase, P.O.V./AmDoc. In 2008, her documentary about genetic testing and Alzheimer’s Disease, UNRAVELED, won a Freddie Award; her short film REMNANT won a TELLY Award in 1999. Gares has a BA in English Literature from Rutgers University and an MA in Media Studies from The New School. Her work has received support from Ford Foundation and Jerome Foundation.