Vanessa Roth

Vanessa is an Academy Award, Emmy Honors, DuPont-Columbia and Sundance Award Winning filmmaker with over 25 years of Directing, Producing and Writing social justice documentary features, series, shorts and branded content. Among her work she is the Executive Producer, Writer and Director of the Emmy Honors winning international series, Daughters of Destiny (Netflix Originals), Oscar winner for her film Freeheld (HBO), Director of the Premium Documentary Mary J Blige's My Life(Amazon Originals), as well as Executive Producer, Writer and Director for National Geographic Presents IMPACT with Gal Gadot, an international 6- part series and feature length documentary (National Geographic Originals). Her work has garnered the highest of honors in documentary, film, television and journalism with over 60 awards including the Oscar, The Television Academy Emmy Award for Social Impact, Sundance Prizes, Cine Golden Eagles, Casey Medals, Impact Doc Awards for Best in Show and Outstanding Achieveme