Team
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: CATHERINE MASUD
Catherine Masud is an award-winning filmmaker with over 25 years of experience in producing, directing, writing and editing, working in both documentary and fictional genres. An American citizen by birth, Catherine spent much of her adult life in Bangladesh, working together with her late husband and filmmaking partner Tareque Masud. She produced, co-wrote, and edited the acclaimed feature THE CLAY BIRD (2002), which won the International Critics' Prize at Cannes. She also co-directed and edited the feature-length documentaries SONG OF FREEDOM and WORDS OF FREEDOM, both groundbreaking films in Bangladesh, which treated the 1971 Liberation War and its aftermath. Thematically many of her films address social justice issues such as child labor, forced incarceration, military repression and religious extremism. Due to the sensitivity of their subject matter, her films were often censored or banned in Bangladesh. But they went on to screen at major festivals, were theatrically released internationally, and broadcast on major networks in the US, Canada, the UK, France, and many other countries.
PRODUCER:
ABBY GINZBERG
Abby Ginzberg (abby@socialactionmedia.com) is a Peabody award-winning director who has been producing compelling documentaries about race and social justice for over 30 years. Her most recent film, BARBARA LEE: SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER is an intimate, compelling film about Rep. Barbara Lee, who is best known for her lone NO vote against the use of military force following the 9/11 attacks and has spent the last 23 years in Congress fighting for peace, justice and equality. WAGING CHANGE (2019), a documentary about the challenges faced by tipped servers, forced to rely on their tips and the federal tipped minimum wage of $2.13 per hour was broadcast on public television in February and March, 2021. AND THEN THEY CAME FOR US (2017), about the connection between the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WW II and the current Muslim travel ban was broadcast on public television in May, 2019 and 2020. She co-produced and co-directed AGENTS OF CHANGE (2016; with Frank Dawson), about the Black student movement of the late 1960’s on college campuses. SOFT VENGEANCE: ALBIE SACHS AND THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA won a 2015 Peabody award and has screened at film festivals around the world, winning four audience awards. Abby was the Consulting Producer on THE BARBER OF BIRMINGHAM, which premiered at Sundance in 2011, was nominated for an Oscar® in the Short Doc category and premiered on POV and was directed by Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin. She received grants from Cal Humanities for AGENTS OF CHANGE and her film, CRUZ REYNOSO: SOWING THE SEEDS OF JUSTICE (2011).