Linda Goldstein Knowlton

Historia

Linda Goldstein Knowlton is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker working in documentary, scripted feature films, and television. Her most recent film, We Are The Radical Monarchs, premiered at SXSW19 and was broadcast on PBS. She began her career producing feature films, including Whale Rider and The Shipping News, and began directing documentaries in 2003.

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Split at the Root
Director
When a Guatemalan mother seeking asylum was separated from her kids under Zero Tolerance Policy, a group of women sprang into action. Our film focuses on immigrant mothers navigating US bureaucracy and the volunteer group reuniting separated families.
We Are the Radical Monarchs
Producer
A group of tween girls chant into megaphones, marching in the San Francisco Trans March. Fists clenched high, they wear brown berets and vests showcasing colorful badges like “Black Lives Matter” and “Radical Beauty.” Meet the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color at the front lines of social justice. Set in Oakland, a city with a deep history of social justice movements, the film documents the journey of the group as they earn badges for completing units including being an LGBTQ ally, preserving the environment, and disability justice. Started by two fierce, queer women of color, we follow them as they face the challenge to grow the organization, both pre/post the 2016 election
We Are the Radical Monarchs
Director
A group of tween girls chant into megaphones, marching in the San Francisco Trans March. Fists clenched high, they wear brown berets and vests showcasing colorful badges like “Black Lives Matter” and “Radical Beauty.” Meet the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color at the front lines of social justice. Set in Oakland, a city with a deep history of social justice movements, the film documents the journey of the group as they earn badges for completing units including being an LGBTQ ally, preserving the environment, and disability justice. Started by two fierce, queer women of color, we follow them as they face the challenge to grow the organization, both pre/post the 2016 election
El cascanueces y los cuatro reinos
Executive Producer
Todo lo que Clara (Mackenzie Foy) quiere es una llave. Durante una fascinante fiesta de Navidad en la que todos reciben sus regalos, su padrino Drosselmeyer (Morgan Freeman) conducirá a la joven hacia esta llave única, que desaparece rápidamente en un extraño y misterioso mundo paralelo. Allí, Clara conocerá a un soldado llamado Phillip (Jayden Fowora-Knight), una pandilla de ratones y a los gobernantes que presiden los tres Reinos: El Reino de las Nieves, el Reino de las Flores, y el Reino de los Dulces. Pero existe un cuarto Reino, el hogar de la tirana Mamá Jengibre (Helen Mirren). Allí comenzaron todos los problemas de estos Reinos de fantasía, cuando Mamá Jengibre inició la guerra reuniendo a sus tropas. En un lugar donde nada es lo que parece, Clara será la única que pueda detener los planes de esta tirana.
Radical Brownies
Director
Berets, badges, Black Lives Matter and social justice: the youth group for activist girls of colour.The Radical Monarchs is an alternative to the Scout movement for girls of colour in Oakland. Its members earn badges not for sewing or selling cookies, but for completing challenges on social justice including Black Lives Matter, 'radical beauty', being 'an LGBTQ ally' and the environment.
Code Black
Producer
Code Black follows a team of young, idealistic and energetic ER doctors during the transition from the old to the new L.A. County as they try to avoid burnout and improve patient care. Why do they persist, despite being under siege by rules, regulations and paperwork?
Somewhere Between
Producer
Questions of race, identity and heritage are explored through the lives of young American women growing up as adoptees from China. These four distinct individuals reflect on their experiences as members of transracial families.
Somewhere Between
Director
Questions of race, identity and heritage are explored through the lives of young American women growing up as adoptees from China. These four distinct individuals reflect on their experiences as members of transracial families.
The World According to Sesame Street
Director
A documentary which examines the creation and co-production of the popular children's television program in three developing countries: Bangladesh, Kosovo and South Africa.
Bobby McFerrin: Try This at Home
Producer
Recorded at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis in September 1999.
Atando cabos
Producer
Cuando Quoyle, un hombre solitario y desdichado, pierde a su esposa, de la que estaba separado, en un accidente de coche, decide abandonar Nueva York y trasladarse con su tía y su hija a un pequeño puerto pesquero de Terranova, la tierra natal de sus antepasados. Allí consigue trabajo como reportero en el periódico local y, a medida que pasa el tiempo, se siente cada vez más identificado con el paisaje y más a gusto consigo mismo. Además, poco a poco, surgirá un romance entre él y Wavey, una mujer que también tiene que combatir los fantasmas del pasado.
Locos en Alabama
Producer
Peter Joseph, al que todos llaman Peejoe, tiene doce años y vive en una pequeña localidad sureña de Alabama; su rutinaria existencia se verá alterada cuando su tía Lucille, que acaba de matar a su marido, decide irse a Hollywood para triunfar en la televisión. Mientras espera noticias de ella, oirá hablar por primera vez de maridos que abusan de sus esposas y, también, de los llamados "derechos civiles", que, durante aquel verano de 1965, provocan multitudinarias manifestaciones protagonizadas por ciudadanos negros.
Mumford. Algo va a cambiar tu vida
Producer
El doctor Mumford es un joven psicólogo que vive en la pequeña ciudad de Mumford. Una terapia basada en el sentido común unida a su capacidad para escuchar y su sorprendente franqueza atrae y seduce a sus estrafalarios pacientes. Su estilo, muy poco ortodoxo, alivia los corazones atormentados por antiguos secretos y propicia situaciones románticas en los lugares más insospechados. Sin embargo, también él tiene secretos que ocultar.