Abby Ginzberg

Abby Ginzberg is an American independent documentary film director and producer and founder of Ginzberg Productions. Since starting to make films in 1983, she has made many films about discrimination and the legal profession.

Early life and education Abby Ginzberg graduated from UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, California, in 1975.

Career Academia Ginzberg taught at UC Berkeley School of Law from 1975 to 1976, and at New College of California School of Law from 1981 to 1985.

Filmmaking Ginzberg started producing and directing films in 1983.

In 2005, Ginzberg released the documentary Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson’s American Journey, which profiled federal district judge Thelton Henderson. won numerous awards, including Best of Festival at Vermont International Film Festival, a CINE Golden Eagle, an ABA Silver Gavel. It was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the Oakland Museum of California and the Film Arts Festival, and was also aired on public television, Free Speech TV, and Democracy Now!, and internationally in Australia and the United Kingdom. The documentary, which was executive produced by the Ford Foundation, Alfre Woodard (who also narrated), and Deborah Santana, chronicled the life of anti-apartheid freedom fighter and former Constitutional Court judge Albie Sachs, who lost an arm and an eye in an attack by the South African security services in Mozambique in 1988.

Ginzberg is a member of Film Fatales women directors of independent film.

Selected awards 2022: NAACP Image Award for Best Documentary (2022); Best Director, Harlem International Film Festival; Best Documentary, American Film Festival (Poland); for Barbara Lee:Speaking Truth to Power 2014: Peabody Award, for Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa 2006: CINE Golden Eagle, for Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey 2003: Best of Festival at Vermont International Film Festival; a CINE Golden Eagle; ABA Silver Gavel, for Doing Justice: The Life and Trials of Arthur Kinoy

Selected filmography Everyday Heroes (Documentary, 2001) Director & Producer Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey (Documentary, 2005) Director & Producer Cruz Reynoso: Sowing the Seeds of Justice (2010) Director & Producer The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement (Documentary short, 2011) Consulting Producer Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa (Documentary, 2014) Director & Producer Agents of Change (Documentary, 2016) Co-director & Co-producer And Then They Came for Us (Documentary, 2017) Co-director & Producer Waging Change(Documentary,2019) Director and Producer Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power (Documentary, 2020) Director & Producer American Justice on Trial (Documentary short, 2022) Co-Producer