Lyn Goldfarb

Lyn Goldfarb is an Academy Award-nominated and award-winning filmmaker specializing in historical and social issue documentaries for PBS and major cable. Lyn Goldfarb started her work as a documentary filmmaker as the historian and producer of "With Babies and Banners". It was her first film, and it was nominated for an Academy Award. She was educated as a history major with a Masters Degree in Women's Studies, but film ignited her passion. Film has a unique ability to make history accessible by showing how ordinary people rise to extraordinary heights to challenge or change the circumstances around them. "With Babies and Banners" offered an incredible opportunity to research, reconstruct and bring to life a story of women whose courage and conviction made a difference in their community and the nation. This pivotal documentary, produced with Lorraine W. Gray and Anne Bohlen, won multiple awards internationally, and was broadcast on television worldwide with a theatrical release. The