Roberta Grossman

Executive Director and Co-Founder

An award-winning filmmaker, Roberta Grossman is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the Writers Guild of America. She has written, directed and produced more than 40 hours of film and television including Who Will Write Our History and the Netflix Original Documentary Seeing Allred about women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Grossman directed Above and Beyond for producer Nancy Spielberg. Grossman’s Hava Nagila (The Movie) was released in 2012 and in 2008, Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh, which was shortlisted for an Academy Award. Grossman produced the films Vishniac (2023) and Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning (2014) both of which aired on PBS/American Masters. Between 2021-2023, Grossman produced and directed a series of films for the new Lost Shtetl Museum in Lithuania.

Grossman received the Taube Jewish Peoplehood Award in 2020. The award honors Jewish men and women who have worked to foster pride in Jewish identity and heritage for new generations, making a uniquely Jewish contribution to global culture.