Hunter Film & Media Studies Professors Receive
Rockefeller Foundation Award for
Documentary Film Award will Allow Professors Tami Gold and Kelly Anderson to Continue Work on Film Documenting NYC Mothers Whose Sons Have Been Killed by Police May 2000 – Hunter College is pleased to announce that AndersonGold Films – a film production company owned by Professor Tami Gold and
adjunct Professor Kelly Anderson –has received a Rockefeller Foundation Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship. Each year 14 gifted film and media artists from the U.S. are awarded fellowships.
Through these awards, the Foundation encourages the creative community to expand and interpret the contemporary definitions of differences in an evolving society. The fellowship will allow
Professors Gold and Anderson to continue working on their timely documentary, Every Mother's Son. Every Mother's Son
focuses on the emerging movement of mothers in New York City whose sons have been killed by the police and who contest official accounts of what happened. Over the past five years, the mothers' movement has grown into a strong, grassroots force. Every time someone is killed by a police officer under suspicious circumstances, the mothers assemble to help the family of the new victim deal with their pain. Giving voice to their personal and collective stories, the film will show how these women use the common bond of motherhood to cross traditional boundaries of identity and community, and forge new alliances to speak out for changes in policing practices and the criminal justice system.
Tami Gold,
a professor at Hunter College since 1987, launched her career at the age of 20 in the Newsreel Film Collective of the anti-Vietnam War movement. Since then she has produced and directed over 17 films about controversial or often ignored subjects. Her work has appeared at the Sundance Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, the American Film Institute's International Film Festival and the Whitney Museum. Professor Gold recently completed
Another Brother, about an African American Vietnam veteran, which premiered at the 1998 Urban World Film Festival. The film won a Gold Hugo from the Chicago
International Film Festival; a CINE Golden Eagle Award; a Gold World Medal at the New York Festival's International Competition and was broadcast over PBS. She also recently
completed Out at Work: America Undercover (with Kelly Anderson), which aired on HBO. Her other work includes Signed, Sealed & Delivered
, and Looking For Love: Teenage Mothers. In 1996, Professor Gold directed her first narrative, the short film Emily & Gitta. She is the recipient of
fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the American Film Institute via Institute funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. She also
has received the Excellence in the Arts award from the Manhattan Borough President. Kelly Anderson,
a Lower East Side resident born and raised in Montreal, has been an adjunct professor at Hunter for the past ten years, since moving to New York City. Her most recent work is Shift
, a one-hour drama for public television about the relationship between a North Carolina waitress and a telemarketing prison inmate, which premiered in January 2000 at the Rotterdam
International Film Festival and was an award winner at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Professor Anderson's documentaries include Out at Work: America Undercover
(with Tami Gold), which was screened at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival and received a Golden Apple at the National Educational Media Awards and a Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival. Professor Anderson was the co-producer of the Independent Television Service series
Signal to Noise, a three-part public television series about America's relationship with television. She recently edited Another Brother and
Emily & Gitta. In 1994 she produced and directed Looking for a Space. She is a recipient of fellowships from the American Film Institute and the New York
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