A Conversation with My Black Son

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Filmmaker Bios

Geeta Gandbhir Geeta Gandbhir has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and has won two. As editor, films have been nominated twice for the Academy Award, winning once, and have also won three Peabody Awards. Most recently, A Journey of A Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers, a feature documentary she produced with Perri Peltz and directed with Academy Award Winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. She is currently co-directing and co-producing a "Conversation" series on race with The New York Times Op-Docs, and she co-directed and edited the film, Remembering the Artist, Robert De Niro, Sr. with Perri Peltz for HBO. Additional notable works as an editor include, Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown, Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley for HBO, which was nominated for an Emmy, When the Levees Broke, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, Music By Prudence, Budrus, If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise, and God is the Bigger Elvis, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2012. Her film, Which Way is the Front Line From Here? by author and Academy Award-nominated director Sebastian Junger was nominated for the 2014 News and Doc Emmy Awards.

Blair Foster Blair Foster is a filmmaker who won two Emmys for her work on the Academy Award winning film, Taxi to the Dark Side as well as an Emmy for Martin Scorsese's documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World. She recently directed six short documentaries for the new Amazon series The New Yorker Presents. She produced the Emmy nominated Sinatra: All or Nothing at All and the Peabody Award-winning Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown, both directed by Alex Gibney. She is the executive producer of The History of the Eagles as well as We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks. In 2012, Foster produced Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream, part of the Peabody Award-winning Why Poverty series. She is the co-creator and director of The Conversation, a series of short films about race published by The New York Times Op-Doc series. The series was recently awarded a MacArthur Grant as well as an Impact Grant from NBCUniversal. Blair attended graduate school for history and has a master's degree in documentary film from Stanford University.