Bio
Rachel Gordon is a freelance marketing and distribution consultant for educational videos, working with independent documentary filmmakers to expand their audience. After working for the National Film Board of Canada, and organizing the educational catalog of the Anti-Defamation League, she started Energized Films to enable independent content to reach larger audiences.
Rachel is also involved in video production, as a director/producer. She has worked with feature films and directed/produced short films for the past ten years. She is writing a feature film about feminine fear of commitment, and created a short based on the feature, Loose Ends, that screened at festivals. She produced the horror feature film The Blood Shed, released by Heretic Films, and Under the Raven’s Wing.
She worked for the Anti-Defamation League running their resource catalog of educational films and books dealing with racism, bigotry, hate crimes, and anti-Semitism. Before joining the ADL, she assisted the National Film Board of Canada in distributing their documentary and animated films in the United States to socially-aware organizations, schools, and libraries.
She participated in several of the 48 Hour Project contests. One of the final products, which she directed and produced, Writing on the Wall, was chosen as the Best of New York and is part of the Annual Program Without Frontiers based in San Francisco. It was also an official selection of the San Francisco Short Film Festival and screened at Reel Venus Film Festival. Another project she directed, Bench Warmers, screened at Valley Film Festival in Los Angeles and Miami Short Film Festival. Her initial directorial video project from 2002, Room Tone, screened at festivals across the United States. She is a member of New York Women in Film and Television and actively participates on their Programming Committee.
Rachel provided script coverage for such companies as Tribeca Productions, Open City Films, Walden Media, and Apex Entertainment. She also contributes filmreviews and articles to filmcritic.com, Cinemad, and CultureCartel.net, the latter a site she helped found and for which she still aids in business operations. Interviewees she has profiled include Campbell Scott, D.A.
Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, and Jay Craven.