Rachel Field
Director
Organization: ANTHROPOMEDIA
Biography
• DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER • VISUAL & MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST • BROADCAST JOURNALIST
• Director, ANTHROPOMEDIA
• Recipient of the CPB/WGBH Multicultural Producer’s Fellowship; Columbia/Dupont Journalism Workshop Fellowship and NPR Producer’s Fellowship
• Grants panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Independent Television Service (ITVS/Independent Lens) and the Smithsonian Institution
• Former Writer/Producer/Director of award-winning, prime-time, nationally broadcast PBS documentaries for WGBH-TV, Boston • Former Chair of the Board of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF) • Former Vice President of Women Make Movies
• Former Professor at Hampshire College, Hofstra University, NYU Tisch ~ Institute of Film & Television, Marymount Manhattan College and the International Film and Television Workshops in Rockport, Maine
• Guest Lecturer at Columbia University, Princeton University, the Society for Visual Anthropology, the Latin American Studies Association, The Pontifica Universidade (Rio, Brazil) and the Instituto Indigenista Interamericano (Mexico, D.F.)
• Awarded a Post-Doctoral Fulbright Fellowship to teach at the Central American University and to conduct intercultural research on childbirth and the role of traditional birthing attendants. Producer/Director of “Abuelitas de Ombligo” (“Grandmothers of the Belly-Button”), which helped inspire the foundation of MADRE, an international grass-roots women’s human rights advocacy organization
• Currently serving her 15th year as an elected Trustee of the Bedford (MA) Free Public Library
• Bilingual (Spanish/English); fluent Portuguese; rusty French
