I am a mother and have six grandchildren. This makes me happy. I am also a documentary filmmaker, educator and artist. I was born in the Bronx, NY and was raised is Levittown, LI, Queens and Union City, NJ. Following high school I studied at Friends World College in Mexico, Cuba and hitchhiked throughout Central and South America. While in Cuba I studied with the renown Cuban documentary filmmaker Santiago Alverez whose teachings and films have had an everlasting impact on me. When I returned to New York City I joined the Newsreel Film collective, which was a production and distribution company founded in 1967 in response to the political turmoil that surrounded the Vietnam war, Civil Rights struggle and the Women’s movement. It was during this time that I made my first film, MY COUNTRY OCCUPIED. During the early 1970’s I wanted to get involved with direct organizing taking place in communities and factories. I left filmmaking and got a job at Maxwell House Coffee as an assembly-line worker in Hoboken, NJ. A few years later I jumped at the opportunity to be trained as a pipe fitter at Public Service Electric and Gas in Jersey City. But I continued to want to make films and eight years later I returned to filmmaking through the federally funded Comprehensive Employment and Training Act CETA, which employed 10,000 artists across the United States. Since then I have produced many critically acclaimed documentary films that have consistently been at the forefront of social issues looking at racism, police violence, women’s rights, conditions for workers and labor organizing, violence and discrimination against LGBT people. Working in collaboration has always been central to my process and many of my films have been done in partnership with other filmmakers. My films include: Every Mother’s Son; Juggling Gender: Politics, Sex and Identity; Out At Work: Lesbian And Gay Men On The Job; Another Brother; Passionate Politics: The Life and Work of Charlotte Bunch; Signed, Sealed and Delivered Labor Struggle in the Post Office; RFK In The Land of Apartheid: A Ripple Of Hope; Puzzles: When hate Came to Town; Making A Killing. Over the years I have been the recipient of Rockefeller, Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships; Tribeca Audience Award; GLAAD Media Award; Urban Visionaries Award, Museum of Television and Radio; NY/NJ Video Arts Fellowships; Excellence in the Arts Award from the Manhattan Borough President; AFI Independent Filmmakers Production Fellowship. Some of my films have been presented at the MOMA, the Whitney, The Chicago Arts Institute, The Kennedy Center, the American and British Film Institutes, Sundance, Tribeca and The New York Film Festival, Slamdance and in over 150 film festivals worldwide. In 1988 I was invited to join the faculty at Hunter College CUNY where I developed the video production curriculum, led student exchanges to Cuba and South Africa, and have been a leader on many fronts including my recent work directing the James Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism. As I continue to teach and produce documentaries, I have returned to my first love – painting and sculpture.

Tami Gold (Filmmaker, Artist & Educator) is a visual artist who began working in media in the early 1970’s in the Newsreel Film Collective of the anti-Vietnam War movement. In addition to painting, sculpture and writing, she is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Most recently Tami directed (with Larry Shore, Producer/Director) RFK IN THE LAND OF APARTHEID: A Ripple of Hope (www.rfksafilm.org), a documentary about Robert Kennedy’s visit to South Africa in 1966 and the connection between the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. In 2006, Tami produced and directed a video about the popular struggle in Oaxaca, Mexico, LAND RAIN AND FIRE (with Gerardo Renique), which aired internationally on Spanish language TV. She authored a companion article A RAINBOW IN THE MIDST OF A HURRICANE (Radical Teacher 2008). In 2004, Tami produced and directed EVERY MOTHER’S SON (with Kelly Anderson) winner of the Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award and broadcast on the PBS series POV. This film profiles three mothers whose son’s were killed by the NYPD and unexpectedly find themselves united to seek justice and transform their grief into an opportunity for profound social change. In 2000, Tami produced and directed MAKING A KILLING (with Kelly Anderson), a documentary that addresses the marketing practices of the tobacco industry in the developing world. MAKING A KILLING premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival, was screened for delegates at the World Health Organization and aired on television in Nigeria, Serbia, Lagos and Vietnam. Tami has produced and directed over 20 films including: ANOTHER BROTHER, the story of an African American Vietnam Veteran which aired on PBS; JUGGLING GENDER: Politics, Sex and Identity, which aired on Reel New York and screened at the New York Film Festival’s video series; OUT AT WORK: Lesbians and Gay men on the Job, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival and was shown on HBO and authored a companion article MAKING OUT AT WORK (Social Text – Routledge); SIGNED SEALED AND DELIVERED, Labor Struggle in the Post Office, aired on PBS and LOOKING FOR LOVE: Teenage Mothers among others. She is the recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Video Arts Fellowships from the New Jersey and New York State Councils on the Arts, the Excellence in the Arts Award from the Manhattan Borough President, The American Film Institutes Independent Filmmakers Production Fellowship. Her work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whiney Museum, The Chicago Arts Institute, The Kennedy Center, The American Film Institute, The British Film Institute, The Public Theatre among others. Tami is a Professor at Hunter College and the Hunter Chapter Chair of the PSC CUNY.