Lyn Goldfarb

Lyn Goldfarb is an Academy Award-nominated and award-winning filmmaker specializing in historical and social issue documentaries for PBS and major cable. Lyn Goldfarb started her work as a documentary filmmaker as the historian and producer of "With Babies and Banners". It was her first film, and it was nominated for an Academy Award. She was educated as a history major with a Masters Degree in Women's Studies, but film ignited her passion. Film has a unique ability to make history accessible by showing how ordinary people rise to extraordinary heights to challenge or change the circumstances around them. "With Babies and Banners" offered an incredible opportunity to research, reconstruct and bring to life a story of women whose courage and conviction made a difference in their community and the nation. This pivotal documentary, produced with Lorraine W. Gray and Anne Bohlen, won multiple awards internationally, and was broadcast on television worldwide with a theatrical release. The documentary developed a national outreach campaign and the film has been shown throughout the nation and the world addressing issues of women, empowerment and labor. Goldfarb grew up in the San Fernando Valley and two of her documentaries (broadcast nationally on PBS) reveal riveting yet unknown stories about Los Angeles: "Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race" and "The New Los Angeles" . She also produced "Tom Bradley's Impossible Dream" for high school classrooms. Documentaries are powerful vehicles to tell untold stories, and give a voice and a resonance to people whose stories have been left out of our history books. Goldfarb worked two of the PBS documentary series that have defined the genre of social history documentaries. She was a Producer, Director and Writer on Henry Hampton's team on "The Great Depression", "The Great War" for KCET. . Both series won major television awards. She went on to produce three series for PBS: "California and the American Dream", "Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire", and "The Roman Empire in the First Century". Goldfarb also produces short documentaries for museums, exhibitions and non-profits, including: the J. Paul Getty Museum, the American Association of Museums, and the Guadalajara International Book Fair. Goldfarb's films have received an Academy Award nomination; two Emmy Awards; a George Foster Peabody Award; two du-Pont Columbia Awards; a Golden Mike; a CINE Golden Eagle; three Bronze Telly Awards; a Blue Ribbon and Emily Grand Prize, American Film Festival; a Gold Ducat, Mannheim Int'l Film Festival; and Outstanding Film of the Year, London Int'l Film Festival. Goldfarb's documentaries have screened at film festivals worldwide including: Los Angeles Film Festival; New York Film Festival; Telluride Film Festival; Nosotros American Latino Film Festival; Pan African Film Festival; San Francisco Laborfest; Oakland International Film Festival; San Francisco Black Film Festival; San Fernando Valley International Film Festival; Other Venice Film Festival; LaFemme Film Festival; Miami Women's International Film Festival; San Diego Latino Film Festival; San Diego Black Film Festival; Festival Internacional de Cine de Monterrey; Aluta International Film Festival (South Africa); Black Maria Film and Video Festival; and the American Film Institute. She was selected as a film expert to represent the United States abroad, as part of the American Film Showcase. Goldfarb is a member of the WGA/w, the DGA and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and has an M.A. in Women's Studies from the George Washington University.