Connie Field

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Connie Field is a director of documentary features.

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Her works include The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980), Forever Activists (1990), Freedom on My Mind (1994) and Have You Heard From Johannesburg (2010).

Her resume have been nominated for two Academy Awards, and other film awards, including a Primetime Emmy, the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and two International Documentary Association Best Feature and Series awards.

Early life

Field was born to a Jewish family [1] in Washington, D.C. and was a full-time organizer for social causes in the late 1960s and 1970s in Boston and New York City. She was a journalist for The Old Mole, a radical New Left oriented underground newspaper and a member of Boston Newsreel, one of a group of independent filmmaking and distribution organizations around the country, which made over 60 documentaries in conjunction with grass-roots organizers to serve as catalysts for social change. Upon moving to New York City, she worked for The People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice and the Indochina Peace Campaign, both national organizations working for a just end to the war in Vietnam. During this time, she discovered a history never taught her generation of the many struggles for social equality achieved by previous generations. Both the importance of this discovery and her commitment to social justice would shape the rest of her life and work.

Film career

Field's first film, The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter , told the story of American women who went to work during World War II to do “men's jobs.” It has been selected by the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for preservation as a significant component of America’s film heritage. [2]

She was co-director of the documentary Forever Activists (1990), an Oscar-nominated film produced and directed by Judy Montell about the lifelong activism of seven members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the American contingent who fought on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War.

Freedom on My Mind (1994) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is a history of the Mississippi Voter Registration Project during the Civil Rights Movement which culminated in Freedom Summer in 1964. [3] [4] [5] It was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. [6] Variety called it “a landmark documentary that chronicles the most tumultuous and significant years in the history of the civil rights movement. A must see” [7] while The Chicago Tribune gave similar praise. [8] It was also broadcast on PBS’s American Experience.

Have You Heard From Johannesburg (2010) is a seven-film series covering the struggle of the global anti-apartheid movement to end apartheid in South Africa. It has been called “a monumental chronicle not just of one nation and its hideous regime, but of the second half of the 20th century.” The series won a Primetime Emmy Award for its broadcast on PBS's Independent Lens in 2012, and was awarded Best Limited Series by the International Documentary Association, and named Best Documentary of 2010 by The Village Voice and Time Out New York . [9]

Other work includes ¡Salud! (2007), a documentary on Cuba’s role in the struggle for global health equity and the complex realities confronting the movement to make healthcare everyone’s birthright.

Selected filmography

Awards and nominations

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

Freedom on My Mind

¡Salud!

Have You Heard From Johannesburg

Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine

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References

  1. ↑ Jewish Women's Archive: "Filmmakers, Independent North American" by Deborah Kaufman; retrieved October 23, 2017
  2. ↑ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
  3. ↑ Movie Review: A Study in Black and White: 'Freedom on My Mind' Documents Civil Rights Drive in Mississippi - Los Angeles Times
  4. ↑ The Washington Post
  5. ↑ Review/Film: Freedom on My Mind; Memories Of a Hot Summer Long Ago - The New York Times
  6. ↑ TCM Diary: Freedom on Our Mind - Film Comment Magazine
  7. ↑ Variety
  8. ↑ `FREEDOM ON MY MIND' DOCUMENTS STRUGGLE AGAINST HATE - Chicago Tribune
  9. ↑ Uhlich, Keith (21 December 2010). "Best (and Worst) of 2010". Time Out New York. Archived from the original on 21 June 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  10. ↑ 1995|Oscars.org
  11. ↑ Documentary Winners: 1995 Oscars
  12. ↑ "Freedom on My Mind". Sundance.org. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
  13. ↑ Television Academy
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