Debra Zimmerman has been Executive Director of Women Make Movies since 1983.  She is in great demand around the world as a speaker on independent film distribution, marketing and financing as well as on women's film.  She has moderated panels and given master classes at the Sundance Film Festival, MIPDOC and Reel Screen as well as film festivals in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America and been on the juries of film festivals worldwide.  She sits on the Board of Directors of Cinema Tropical, a resource for Latino independent filmmakers and on the Advisory Board of the Center for Social Media at American University.  She is the recipient of New York Women in Film and Television's Loreen Arbus Award and the Hot Doc's 2013 Doc Mogul Award, given to those who "over the course of their career has made an essential contribution to the creative vitality of the documentary industry, both in his or her country or abroad."