Rachel Goslins, Washington, DC

Rachel Goslins is a documentary director and producer. Her short film, Onderduiken, on her family's history in hiding in Holland during the Holocaust, is used in civil rights curricula for Northern California high schools. Her feature films include 'Bama Girl, an award-winning documentary following a black woman running for Homecoming Queen at the University of Alabama, which aired on the IFC Channel, and God's House, a film about Albanian Muslims who saved Jews during WWII, currently in post-production. She has also been active in arts administration, acting as the Programming Director for the Impact Film Festival, which screened issue-oriented independent films and documentaries at both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions in 2008 and serving as the Director of the Independent Digital Distribution Lab, a joint PBS/ITVS project focused on distributing independent films online. Earlier in her film career, she worked on productions for National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, A&E and the History Channel. Prior to that Goslins served as an international copyright attorney for the firm of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, and Attorney-Advisor in the office of Policy and International Affairs in the U.S. Copyright Office.