Director Producer Roberta Grossman to talk with Pitt Students about Social Conscience filmmaking

ROBERTA GROSSMAN is an award-winning filmmaker with a passion for history and social justice, Roberta Grossman has written and produced more than forty hours of documentary television. She was the series producer and co-writer of 500 Nations, the eight-hour CBS mini-series on Native Americans hosted by Kevin Costner. Grossman's feature documentary, Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action, premiered in February 2005, and has screened and won awards at more than forty festivals worldwide. Other writing and producing credits include In the Footsteps of Jesus, a four-hour special for the History Channel; Hollywood and Power: Women on Top, a special for AMC; The Rich in America: 150 Years of Town and Country Magazine for A&E, The History of Christianity: the First Thousand Years, a four-hour special on A&E, Medal of Honor, a six-part television series produced for U.S. News and World Report, and Heroines of the Hebrew Bible and Judas for the A&E series Mysteries of the Bible.

For more information contact:

Vladimir Padunov, padunov@pitt.edu

or

Jennifer Florian, rf16@pitt.edu

or call 412-624-6564

This lecture is Free and Open to the Public and is sponsored by:

University of Pittsburgh Film Studies Program
Jewish Studies
The Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival