Producing with Passion Seminar with Guest Speaker Dorothy Fadiman          

Dorothy has been producing award-winning media with a focus on social justice and human rights since 1976. She lives in Menlo Park, California, where she moved to pursue graduate work in communication studies at Stanford University. Subjects range from the light of Spirit in every faith (Radiance: The Experience of Light) to progressive education that honors children's natural knowing (Why Do These Kids Love School?) to the extraordinary healing journey of a woman with a spinal cord injury (Moment By Moment: The Healing Journey of Molly Hale).

Her interest in women's issues includes these films: Woman By Woman: New Hope for the Villages of India, a three film series, From the Back Alleys to The Supreme Court & Beyond and From Risk to Action: Women and HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia, one of a five film series, Seeds Of Hope: Meeting the Challenges of HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia. Her films have been shown on PBS stations nationwide, plus a number of international venues. Recent current projects include a documentary exploring the spectrum of "irregularities" in the 2004 Presidential election, Stealing America, and another on the disenfranchisement of Native American voters. Among her honors are an OSCAR nomination, an EMMY, the Gold Medal from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and more than 50 other film awards. In addition to producing documentary films, Dorothy teaches, gives seminars, leads workshops, and trains interns in filmmaking. Film Festival Today calls her new book, Producing with Passion, "one of the most inspiring and informative books ever written about making films that have an impact. "