THE FILMMAKERS
Kirk Simon & Karen Goodman
Kirk Simon and Karen Goodman have made over twenty documentaries and recently won an Academy Award for Strangers No More. Their films have garnered four previous Oscar nominations, several Emmys and the DuPont-Columbia Award for Independent Programming. They have received filmmaking grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, and the American Film Institute.
Their documentaries have been broadcast nationally on PBS, HBO, and MTV, and screened at festivals around the world including the New York Film Festival, Sundance, New Directors / New Films, London, Berlin, Montreal and St. Petersburg. In addition, they have overseen and filmed dance preservation projects for the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Lincoln Center's Library and Museum of the Performing Arts.
Both Mr. Simon and Ms. Goodman are active voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. They have served as consultants to the National Endowment for the Humanities Media Program, on the Documentary Screening Committee for the Academy Awards and as judges for the Emmy Awards and the DuPont-Columbia Broadcast Journalism Award.
LATEST NEWS:
We are pleased to announce the television premiere of
RENÉE FLEMING: A YOUNGARTS MASTERCLASS
May 28th at 6PM on HBO!
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STRANGERS NO MORE is now viewable
online with a subscription to HBO GO.
Be sure to check back later for the DVD release date.
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MASTERCLASS has been nominated for a
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STRANGERS NO MORE won the
Academy Award® for Best Documentary: Short Subject!
