Making Space for the Future

Director Jeff Bieber, Producer Salme M. López Sabina

What does it mean to spend a lifetime trying to change the world through space? This is the question at the heart of Making Space for the Future, a documentary about Elizabeth Diller who, together with her late partner, Ricardo Scofidio, began as a radical conceptual artist to become one of the most influential and powerful architects of her generation, reshaping not just buildings but the way cities think about democracy, culture, and public life.

Jeff Bieber

Director

Jeff Bieber’s films and social impact campaigns have focused on the transformation of America’s identity through The Pilgrims (2015), The Jewish Americans (6-hours, 2008), Latino Americans (6-hours, 2013), Italian Americans (4-hours, 2015), and Asian Americans (5-hours, 2020). Bieber has received two national EMMY Awards, a duPont-Columbia Award, and three Peabody Awards. As Executive Producer of Washington Week on PBS, Jeff produced nightly coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and covered the Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden presidencies. His other public affairs work includes Executive Producer for Avoiding Armageddon (2003), an eight-hour series about weapons of mass destruction; America at a Crossroads (2007), a 12-hour series about America’s role post-9/11, and Korea: The Never-Ending War (2019). Bieber was Director and Producer for: For The Living, about the creation of the U.S. Holocaust Museum (1993), Who Plays God: Medicine, Money and Ethics in American Healthcare (1994), Planet Neighborhood, a 3-part environmental documentary series (1997), There Once Was A Town (2000). Jeff Bieber Productions was created in 2022. Projects include Dante, a 4-hour series directed by Ric Burns (April 2024), The Harvest, a 2-hour film for American Experience (September 2023); Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined (September 2024); Director, writer and Producer for Weaving Nature (April 2024), and Co-Director and Co-writer for Hannah Arendt – Facing Tyranny (broadcast June 27, 2025 and now streaming).

Salme M. López Sabina

Producer

Salme M. López Sabina has led production for several groundbreaking, critically acclaimed films for Public Television including Latin Music USA, FRONTLINE and American Experience’s co-production of God in America and most recently, the highly anticipated six-hour series Latino Americans, which aired in the Fall of 2013. Honing her craft within news and documentaries over the last ten years Salme began her career in journalism where she worked for the most widely read newspaper in San Juan Puerto Rico El Nuevo Día. Salme was born in Havana, Cuba and emigrated to the United States in 1992.