Rachel Goslins

Rachel Goslins

Birth : 1969-07-23,

History

Rachel Goslins’ most recent feature documentary, ’Bama Girl, premiered at SXSW in 2008 and aired on IFC. Her first short film, Onderduiken, was about her family’s history in Holland hiding from the Nazis during WWII. She has made films for National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, A&E and History. She was also the Director of the Independent Digital Distribution Lab, a joint PBS/ITVS project focused on distributing independent films online. From 2009 to 2015, Rachel was Executive Director of the President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities. In August 2016, she was appointed Director of the Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Museum.

Profile

Rachel Goslins

Movies

Besa: The Promise
Besa: The Promise
Producer
A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees during WWII at their own risk, and trying to help the son of an Albanian baker that housed a Jewish family for a year return some Hebrew books that the family had to leave behind.
Besa: The Promise
Besa: The Promise
Director
A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees during WWII at their own risk, and trying to help the son of an Albanian baker that housed a Jewish family for a year return some Hebrew books that the family had to leave behind.
'Bama Girl
'Bama Girl
Director
A charismatic black woman at the University of Alabama runs for Homecoming Queen, going up against a century of ingrained racial segregation, internal black politics, and a secret association of all-white fraternities.