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The G Force

When parents are unable to parent, for whatever reason, an increasing number of grandmothers and grandfathers are filling in to raise their childrenʼs children. The grandparents who step up to being full-time caregivers to their grandchildren are those who make up The G Force.

Pamela Sherrod Anderson

Producer/Director

Pamela Sherrod Anderson is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, playwright, journalist and educator. She has worked as director, assistant director, producer, script supervisor and consultant on independent films. Her first feature-length documentary, The Curators of Dixon School,” received the Black Harvest Audience Award for Best Feature. She also wrote and directed the short film Getting Directions was a selection at the Golden Gate Fiction & Documentary Festival and the Chicago Short Film Festival, and screened at festivals worldwide. Ms. Anderson has written and directed stage plays and screenplays, and has worked as an editor, reporter, and photographer for newspapers and news wire services. As an educator, she teaches in the Film and Video Department at Columbia College in Chicago and at DePaul University in the School of Communications.