Tami Kashia Gold is a documentary filmmaker, visual artist and
educator. She is also a Professor at Hunter College of the City
University of New York in the Department of Film and Media Studies.As
a teenager, Gold studied in Mexico and Cuba where she was first
introduced to the documentary filmmaking of Santiago à lvarez who had
a major influence on her work.In 1970 she began working with the New
York-based Newsreel Film Collective (currently Third World Newsreel).
While in the Newsreel collective, Gold produced and directed (with
Heather Archibald) the docu-drama My Country Occupied in 1971. My
County Occupied is a B&W 16mm docu-drama on the life of a Guatemalan
woman and won First Place winner in the Leipzig Film Festival and was
featured at the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.Gold is
also a visual artist whose work has been presented at galleries such
as the Tabla Rasa Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, Exposico-na-Gravura,
Brasileira, Brazil and her work is part of a print collection at the
Pinacoteca do Estado Museum in São Paulo. Gold's artwork has also
been featured in the Living Arts section of The New York Times. She is
a member of the SONYA arts group in Brooklyn and the New Day Films
coop. She is also a contributing writer for THINK/POINT/SHOOT: Media
Ethics from Development to Distribution.
educator. She is also a Professor at Hunter College of the City
University of New York in the Department of Film and Media Studies.As
a teenager, Gold studied in Mexico and Cuba where she was first
introduced to the documentary filmmaking of Santiago à lvarez who had
a major influence on her work.In 1970 she began working with the New
York-based Newsreel Film Collective (currently Third World Newsreel).
While in the Newsreel collective, Gold produced and directed (with
Heather Archibald) the docu-drama My Country Occupied in 1971. My
County Occupied is a B&W 16mm docu-drama on the life of a Guatemalan
woman and won First Place winner in the Leipzig Film Festival and was
featured at the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.Gold is
also a visual artist whose work has been presented at galleries such
as the Tabla Rasa Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, Exposico-na-Gravura,
Brasileira, Brazil and her work is part of a print collection at the
Pinacoteca do Estado Museum in São Paulo. Gold's artwork has also
been featured in the Living Arts section of The New York Times. She is
a member of the SONYA arts group in Brooklyn and the New Day Films
coop. She is also a contributing writer for THINK/POINT/SHOOT: Media
Ethics from Development to Distribution.
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