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Rachel Gordon
is a freelance marketing and distribution consultant for educational videos,
working with independent documentary filmmakers to expand their audience.
Current clients range in theme from disabilities issues to artist profiles
and architectural history.
Rachel is
also involved in video production, as a producer, production manager,
and director. She has worked with feature films and produced/directed
short films for the past ten years. She helped produce two horror feature
films: The Blood Shed (distributed by Heretic Films) and Under the Raven's
Wing. She is also developing a feature film about feminine fear of commitment,
and has a short video based on the full length script currently making
festival rounds (Loose Ends). Having grown enamored with documentaries
as well, she is also developing a film about alternative medicines.
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. A documentary she helped
produce about Asian American police women in New York called Tea & Justice
is also currently making festival rounds. Her initial directorial video
project from 2002, Room Tone, screened at festivals across the United
States.
Rachel provided
script coverage for over five years, for such companies as Tribeca Productions,
Open City Films, Walden Media, and Apex Entertainment. She also contributes
film reviews and articles to filmcritic.com, Cinemad, and CultureCartel.com,
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. She is a member of the Online
Film Critics Society.
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