Every Mother’s Son

Tami Gold launched her career at the age of 20 as part of the Newsreel Film Collective of the anti-Vietnam War movement. She has since produced and directed more than 17 social-issue films and television broadcasts. Her credits include the award-winning Another Brother, about an African-American Vietnam veteran, Out at Work (with Kelly Anderson), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was re-cut for broadcast on HBO, Making a Killing: Philip Morris, Kraft, and Global Tobacco Addiction (with Kelly Anderson), and Juggling Gender: Politics, Sex, and Identity. In 1996, Gold directed her first narrative, the short film Emily & Gitta. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the American Film Institute. She also has received the Excellence in the Arts award from the Manhattan Borough President. Since 1987, Gold has been a professor in the department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College in New York.

Kelly Anderson is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker whose documentaries include My Brooklyn (America ReFramed), Every Mother's Son (POV/ITVS), and Out At Work (HBO). Her work has received the Tribeca Audience Award, a GLAAD Award, and a national Emmy nomination. She currently chairs the Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College.