Franziska Blome
Independent Filmmaker
Other Roles: Editor, Producer, Director
Areas of Focus: Documentaries
Organization: BlueSpark Collaborative
Biography
Franziska Blome is an Emmy and DuPont-Columbia Award winning filmmaker. Together with BlueSpark Collaborative, she is currently producing, directing and editing ECHOES FROM ELAINE – THE LONG SHADOW OF A MASSACRE, a feature documentary about facing race and history.
Most recently she edited WHEELS OF JUSTICE, an advocacy film for the Disability Law Center, online courses, as well as grant-winning samples. Earlier she produced ACTIVIZED, a 40-min film about ordinary Americans who turn to activism, and worked on numerous highly acclaimed PBS documentaries. Her filmography includes THE WALL and AFTER THE WALL, about the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, and UNNATURAL CAUSES, about health disparities in the United States. During her nine years at WGBH, she worked on many documentaries for American Experience, NOVA and on the esteemed mini-series on slavery, AFRICANS IN AMERICA. At the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Franziska organized international conferences and helped write an online guide for journalists.
Franziska grew up in Germany, received her B.A. from the University of Stirling, Scotland and her M.A. from Emerson College, Boston.
Films
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