Tami Gold


Tami Kashia Gold is a documentary filmmaker, visual artist and educator. She is also a Professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York in the Department of Film and Media Studies.

Biography

As a teenager, Gold studied in Mexico and Cuba where she was first introduced to the documentary filmmaking of Santiago Álvarez who had a major influence on her work.
In 1970 she began working with the New York-based Newsreel Film Collective. While in the Newsreel collective, Gold produced and directed the docu-drama My Country Occupied in 1971. My County Occupied is a B&W 16mm docu-drama on the life of a Guatemalan woman and won First Place winner in the Leipzig Film Festival and was featured at the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.
Gold is also a visual artist whose work has been presented at galleries such as the Tabla Rasa Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, Exposico-na-Gravura, Brasileira, Brazil and her work is part of a print collection at the Pinacoteca do Estado Museum in São Paulo. Gold's artwork has also been featured in the Living Arts section of The New York Times. She is a member of the SONYA arts group in Brooklyn and the New Day Films coop. She is also a contributing writer for THINK/POINT/SHOOT: Media Ethics from Development to Distribution.
For over 30 years, Gold has been producing and directing documentaries. In 1996 she formed the production company AndersonGold films, Inc. with Kelly Anderson. In 2011 she produced PASSIONATE POLITICS about the life and work of feminist activist Charlotte Bunch. In 2010 she directed RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope, a documentary about Robert Kennedy's visit to South Africa in 1966 and the connection between the anti-apartheid struggle and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. In 2006, Gold produced and directed a video about the popular struggle in Oaxaca, Mexico, Land Rain and Fire, which aired internationally on Spanish-language TV. She authored a companion article A Rainbow in the Midst of a Hurricane. In 2004, Gold produced and directed Every Mother's Son, which won the Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award and was broadcast on the PBS series P.O.V.. In 2000, Gold produced and directed Making a Killing, a documentary on 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. In 1998 Gold produced and directed Another Brother, the story of an African American Vietnam Veteran which aired on PBS; in 1992 she produced 'Juggling Gender: Politics, Sex and Identity about Jennifer Miller, which premiered at the New York Film Festival's video series and was broadcast on public television stations; 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; 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, and the American Film Institute's 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 and The Public Theater among others. Gold is a Professor at Hunter College and the Hunter Chapter Chair of the PSC CUNY. She has four daughters and five grandchildren.

Film/documentary work