Connie Field

Academy Award nominated and Emmy winning director Connie Field has made a number of high profile documentaries that have been shown all over the world. Some of her work includes "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?," seven part series on the global movement that ended Apartheid in South Africa, (Prime Time Emmy, Best Documentary Series, IDA & Gold Hugo), "Freedom on My Mind", a history of the civil rights movement in Mississippi (Academy Award nominee, Sundance Grand Jury Prize), "Forever Activist" (Academy Award Nominee), the feminist classic, "The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter," "¡Salud!", a documentary on Cuba’s role in the struggle for global health equity among many others. Her work has been broadcast in over 30 countries and in the US on Independent Lens and The American Experience. She is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim grant, as well as numerous grants from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (and Arts), and the MacArthur Foundation, and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and Sciences, as well as the Television Academy.