Abby Ginzberg, Co-Producer

A Peabody award-winning director, Abby has been producing compelling documentaries about race and social justice for over 35 years. Her most recent film, BARBARA LEE: SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER won the 2022 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding documentary. WAGING CHANGE, a documentary about the challenges faced by tipped servers, forced to rely on their tips and the federal tipped minimum wage of $2.13 per hour was broadcast on public television. AND THEN THEY CAME FOR US, about the connection between the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WW II and the current Muslim travel ban was also broadcast on public television. Abby co-produced and co-directed (with Frank Dawson) AGENTS OF CHANGE about the Black student movement of the late 1960’s on college campuses, which won the Jury and Audience awards for Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival and was broadcast on public television on America ReFramed. SOFT VENGEANCE: ALBIE SACHS AND THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA won a 2015 Peabody award and has screened at film festivals around the world, winning four audience awards. Abby was the Consulting Producer on THE BARBER OF BIRMINGHAM, directed by Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin, which premiered at Sundance and was nominated for an Oscar in the Short Doc category.