NEWS
Lyn Goldfarb
February, 2016. BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: TOM BRADLEY AND THE POLITICS OF RACE had it’s national PBS premiere, and was broadcast in 67 stations, including every major market.
February, 2016. BRIDGING THE DIVIDE was featured at the Pan African Film Festival.
June, 2015. BRIDGING THE DIVIDE had it’s world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
March, 2013. BRIDGING THE DIVIDE received a major production grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
September, 2012, I served as the moderator for the panel How to Do PBS: Tales of Success in the One-Off World at the WESTDOC Conference. http://www.thewestdoc.com/schedule.html
June, 2012, I traveled to Bujumbura, Burundi as a film expert for the American Film Showcase, a partnership between the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts to engage international audiences through American film. View my blog at: http://americanfilmshowcase.usc.edu/category/stories/page/3/
May- June 2011. BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: TOM BRADLEY and the POLITICS of RACE received two major grants: a development grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a grant from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation for archival research and filming.
April 2011. MUSEUMS WITHOUT BORDERS receives a Bronze Telly Award in the Cultural Category. MUSEUMS WITHOUT BORDERS was produced by Lyn Goldfarb for the American Association of Museums 2010 Annual Conference.
January 2011. FORD FOUNDATION selected CALIFORNIA AND THE AMERICAN DREAM Series for its new online archive of social justice films supported by the Ford Foundation. http://www.fordfoundation.org/issues/freedom-of-expression/justfilms/film-collection. Executive Producers: Lyn Goldfarb, Jed Riffe, Paul Espinosa.
September-October 2010. Lyn taught an intensive documentary workshop in Yangon, Myanmar at the American Center, the educational center of the American Embassy. She taught the 4 week workshop with Anayansi Prado. We had 12 Burmese students who produced 4 films.
April and May 2010. Lyn was featured in a workshop “Websites and Social Networking for Documentaries: Building Buzz and Audience for Your Film” at the annual meeting of NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers) talking about her work on BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: TOM BRADLEY AND THE POLITICS OF RACE. Santa Monica and San Diego.
