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Nancy Schwartzman is a Peabody Award nominated documentary film director, producer, and media strategist who uses storytelling and technology to create safer communities for women and girls. Roll Red Roll (POV/Netflix) is her feature film debut, and goes beyond the headlines of the notorious Steubenville, Ohio high school sexual assault case to uncover the social-media fueled "boys will be boys" culture that let it happen. Roll Red Roll premiered in 2018 at the Tribeca Film Festival and Hot Docs, and has screened at over 40 film festivals worldwide and garnered 7 best documentary awards. The film opened theatrically with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. It was a Critic's Pick in The New York Times and reviewed in The New Yorker, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, the Chicago Tribune, the Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times amongst others. Nancy appeared on CNN's Amanpour, BBC Women's Hour and People TV. The film opened the 32nd season of the acclaimed PBS documentary series POV, broadcast on BBC Storyville in the U.K., and is now streaming in 190 countries on Netflix. She is currently directing a documentary feature with Reveal: Center for Investigative Reporting, and in development on two non-fiction series with XTR and Blumhouse. She is publishing a forthcoming book with Hachette slated for 2021. Her newest short film One Shot One Kill, for Mother Jones was September 2020. Nancy's recent short film Anonymous Comes To Town, co-produced with the Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci's Chime for Change, which garnered over a million views on the Guardian. Her first film, The Line (2010), a short documentary examining consent was used by the White House for a campaign around sexuality, and her follow-up film xoxosms (2013), was on PBS/POV and BBC exploring love between two teenagers, bridged by technology. A globally recognized human rights activist, Nancy is a tech founder and created the Obama/Biden's White House award-winning mobile app Circle of 6 designed to reduce sexual violence among America's youth and college students. Over 350,000 people in 36 countries use Circle of 6 and it is currently being adapted for journalists working in Mexico in partnership with Article 19 and the Guardian Project. She is a graduate of Columbia University and newly based in Los Angeles.