Vivian Kleiman

Vivian Kleiman is a Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and a Fleishhacker Eureka Fellowship artist. Her recent film as Director/Producer “No Straight Lines” premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, and garnered Grand Jury Award, LA’s OutFest. Broadcast on primetime national PBS Independent Lens, it reached an audience of 1.5 million viewers. From Executive Producer of the Academy Award-nominated “Last Day of Freedom,” to story editor for the Showtime series “Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men,” her work is known for tackling challenging subjects and filmic approaches. Kleiman worked closely with Black gay filmmaker Marlon Riggs on his landmark films "Ethnic Notions," “Tongues Untied” and “Color Adjustment” and garnered the Organization of American Historians’ Eric Barnouw Award and the International Documentary Association’s Outstanding Achievement Award. She was nominated for a national Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement. She has been involved in 9 co-productions with the Independent Television Service (ITVS) for national PBS broadcast. Also an educator, she taught at Stanford University’s Graduate Program in Documentary Film & Video Production for 9 years.