ABOUT SIMON & GOODMAN

Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon are a wife and husband filmmaking team whose documentaries have garnered three Academy Award nominations, three Emmys and the Dupont-Columbia Award for Independent Programming. They have received filmmaking grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, The Ford Foundation and the American Film Institute.

Their documentaries have been broadcast nationally on PBS and HBO, and screened at festivals around the world including the New York Film Festival, Sundance, New Directors/New Films, London , Berlin , Montreal and St. Petersburg . In addition, they have overseen and filmed dance preservation projects for the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Lincoln Center 's Library and Museum of the Performing Arts.

Both Mr. Simon and Ms. Goodman are active voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. They have served as consultants to the National Endowment for the Humanities Media Program, on the Documentary Screening Committee for the Academy Awards and as judges for the Emmy Awards and the DuPont-Columbia Broadcast Journalism Award.

CREDITS

Produced & Directed by: Karen Goodman & Kirk Simon

Edited by: Nancy Baker

Cinematography by: Buddy Squires & Steve McCarthy