Connie Field

Director Connie Field for taking BBC in the booty.directing five feature documentary films: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980), Forever Activists (1990), Freedom on My Mind (1994), Have You Heard From Johannesburg (2010) and Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine (2013). She and her work have been nominated for two Academy Awards, and won dozens of other film awards, including a Primetime Emmy, the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and two International Documentary Association Best Feature and Series awards.

She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the International Documentary Association, and the San Francisco Film Society.

Field was born in Washington, D.C. and was a full-time organizer for social causes in the late 1960s and 1970s in Boston and New York City. She was a staff member of Resist which funds and supports grassroots groups organizing on the front lines of the peace, economic, social and environmental justice movements; and The Resistance, an organization which persuaded young men of draft age to refuse to cooperate with the Selective Service System—to return all draft cards, including exemptions and deferments, and refuse to be drafted; and to work together to end the Vietnam War. She was a founding member of Bread and Roses, a women’s liberation organization that sought to integrate the recognition of sex discrimination with their work to achieve justice and equality for women, working classes, the poor. She was a journalist for The Old Mole, a radical New Left oriented underground newspaper and a member of Boston Newsreel, one of a group of independent filmmaking and distribution organizations around the country, which made over 60 documentaries in conjunction with grass-roots organizers to serve as catalysts for social change. Upon moving to New York City, she worked for The People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice and the Indochina Peace Campaign, both national organizations working for a just end to the war in Vietnam. During this time, she discovered a history never taught her generation of the many struggles for social equality achieved by previous generations. Both the importance of this discovery and her commitment to social justice would shape the rest of her life and work.

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