Nancy Schwartzman is a documentary film director, producer, and tech founder who uses storytelling and technology to create safer communities for women and girls.
She is the director of the true-crime documentary, Roll Red Roll which premiered this April at the Tribeca Film Festival, and Hot Docs, and is currently playing at over 20 festivals. She is the recent winner of the Adrienne Shelly Foundation’s Excellence in Filmmaking Award. Roll Red Roll is her feature film debut and will have a robust impact campaign engaging men and boys in the transformation of rape culture. Her first film, The Line, a short documentary examining consent was used by the White House for a campaign around sexuality, and her follow-up film xoxosms, was on PBS/POV and BBC exploring love between two teenagers, bridged by technology.
A globally recognized human rights activist, Nancy serves on Vice President Biden’s Advisory Council for Violence Against Women. Nancy is a tech founder, and created the White House award-winning mobile app Circle of 6 designed to reduce sexual violence among America’s youth and college students. Circle of 6 is used by over 350,000 people in 36 countries. The app is now open source and being adapted for women journalists working in Mexico. She has presented her work at the White House, the United Nations, TEDxSheffield, Good Pitch, DOCNYC and more.
Sessions in which Nancy Schwartzman participates
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Panel
Nicole Page, Reavis Page Jump LLP (Moderator)
Nina Menkes, Menkesfilm (Participant)
Annie Roney, ro*co films (Participant)
Nancy Schwartzman, Roll Red Roll / Sunset Park Pictures (Participant)
Michèle Stephenson, Rada Film Group (Participant)
Caroline von Kuhn, Sundance Institute (Participant)
Sessions in which Nancy Schwartzman attends
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Keynote
Molly Thompson, A+E Networks (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Panel
DAVID MAGDAEL, DAVID MAGDAEL & ASSOCIATES, INC. (Moderator)
INKOO KANG, Slate (Participant)
Claudia Puig, Los Angeles Film Critics Association (Participant)
Dino-Ray Ramos, Deadline (Participant)
Gil Robertson, African-American Film Critics Association (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Panel
Iyabo Boyd, Brown Girls Doc Mafia (Moderator)
Abby Sun, The DocYard/MIT Open Doc Lab (Participant)
Joseph Tovares (Participant)
Donald Young, CAAM (Participant)
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Doug Block, The D-Word (Moderator)
Heidi Fleisher, D-Word co-host (Moderator)
Peter Gerard, The D-Word (Moderator)
Hussain Currimbhoy, Sundance Film Festival (Participant)
Erica Ginsberg, The D-Word (Moderator)
Marshall Curry, Marshall Curry Productions (Participant)
Nausheen Dadabhoy, Firelight Media (Participant)
Marilyn Ness, Big Mouth Productions (Participant)
Heidi Reinberg, Heidi Reinberg Big Idea, LLC (Participant)
Yvonne Welbon, Sisters in Cinema (Participant)
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Keynote
Michèle Stephenson, Rada Film Group (Participant)
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Workshop
Frederick Wiseman, Zipporah Films (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
Panel
Tom Jennings, PBS Frontline (Moderator)
Monika Bauerlein, Mother Jones (Participant)
Sonia Kennebeck, Codebreaker Films (Participant)
Fiona Lawson-Baker, Al Jazeera English (Participant)
Palika Makam, WITNESS (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Panel
Robert Greene, 4th Row Films (Moderator)
Yance Ford, Filmmaker (Participant)
Kitty Green (Participant)
Sandi Tan, Shirkers LLC (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Panel
Lisa Chanoff, Catapult Film Fund (Participant)
Monika Navarro, Firelight Media (Participant)
Bonni Cohen, Catapult Film Fund/ Actual Films (Moderator)
Molly Thompson, A+E Networks (Participant)
Caroline von Kuhn, Sundance Institute (Participant)
Hajnal Molnar-Szakacs, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program (Participant)
Carrie Lozano, Sundance Institute (Participant)
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Keynote
Chi-hui Yang, Ford Foundation (Participant)
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) - Gallery
Convening
Sonya Childress, Firelight Media (Moderator)
Jamie Dobie, Peace is Loud (Moderator)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Panel
Kevin Iwashina, International Documentary Association, Endeavor Content (Moderator)
Alan Eyres, National Geographic (Participant)
Jannat Gargi, VulcanProductions (Participant)
Julie Goldman, Motto Pictures (Participant)
Justine Nagan, American Documentary / POV & America ReFramed (Participant)
Poh Si Teng, AJE Witness (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Panel
Alexandra Johnes, *Very Special Projects / Eaton Workshop (Moderator)
Justine Nagan, American Documentary / POV & America ReFramed (Participant)
Brenda Robinson, Gamechanger Films (Participant)
Josh Penn, The Department of Motion Pictures (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
Panel
Axel Arnö, SVT (Moderator)
Rudy Buttignol, British Columbia's Knowledge Network (Participant)
Mandy Chang, BBC (Participant)
Margje de Koning, EO/IKONdocs (Participant)
Annie Roney, ro*co films (Participant)