NEW DAY FILMS BY
Tami Gold:

Every Mother's Son

Producer's Web Site:
www.andersongoldfilms.com

I am a visual artist who began working in media in the early 1970's in the Newsreel Film Collective of the anti-Vietnam War movement. I became of filmmaker when I was 20 years old because I was angry. My paintings could not get at the social injustice I witnessed in our world, so I picked up a camera in hope that my films could have an impact on social change. This was over 30 years ago. I am still angry and still making films.

My creative commitment is to integrate art with social issues, using personal stories to address larger concerns. Whether my stories address policing in America or a young white Afrikaanss personal struggle to free herself from her countrys racist past or a portrait of an African American Vietnam veteran, my work uses individual stories to illuminate the complex and contradictory world in which we live.

Most notable has been the completion of EVERY MOTHER'S SON (with Kelly Anderson) which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in May 2004, where it won the Audience Award. It has been nominated for an EMMY Award 2005, received a CINE Golden Eagle Award, an Urban Visionaries Award and was nationally broadcast in August 2004 on POV, the premiere documentary showcase on PBS. EVERY MOTHERS SON has been selected as one of ten films by National Video Resources to travel with their Human Rights Video Festival and has been shown at countless festivals. In addition it has been used within the arts community to look at the documentary form and within the education community to explore womens rights, human rights and criminal justice. We have recently completed a companion documentary entitled, NYPD BLUES, that will enlarge the discussion begun with EVERY MOTHERS SON around policing and police reform by bringing the voices of the police directly into the conversation.

An earlier work, ANOTHER BROTHER, has recently been released on DVD and is currently enjoying a revival. It has been invited to film festival internationally and is in active circulation within the US. ANOTHER BROTHER is a documentary portrait that tells the story of Clarence Fitch's life, from his teenage years as a marine in Vietnam to his subsequent anti-war activism, from his struggle with narcotics addition to his final battle with AIDS. Premiered at the 1998 Urban World Film Festival and winner of a Gold Hugo Award, a CINE Golden Eagle Award and a Gold World Medal at the New York Festivals International Competition. In 1999 ANOTHER BROTHER had a National PBS Broadcast in celebration of Black History Month.

In addition to my documentary work, in January 2005 I led a month-long study abroad program in South Africa with students from the Film and Media Department of Hunter College. Through a partnership with Hunter College and the University of Cape Town, my students studied and explored alongside South African students. The students produced four documentaries while experiencing the culture, economy and life in Cape Town. In addition to teaching, I filmed a documentary about the profound process that this intercultural exchange had on the students. The outcome of this work will be a theatrical reading based on these interviews while in South Africa and a documentary film.

I have produced and directed over 20 films about controversial or often ignored subjects such as: JUGGLING GENDER: Politics, Sex and Identity, OUT AT WORK: Lesbians and Gay men on the Job, LOOKING FOR LOVE: Teenage Parents, SIGNED SEALED AND DELIVERED, Labor Struggle in the Post Office, and EMILY & GITTA. I am 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 and a Video Arts Fellowship to attend to the BANFF Media Arts Center, Canada. My work has been screened at many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum. I have lectured on panels at The Kennedy Center, the INPUT International Television Conference, the Women in the Director's Chair Festival and at museums and universities throughout the world. I am a Professor of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College (City University of New York).