Nancy Schwartzman

Nancy Schwartzman is a documentary film director, producer, and media strategist whouses storytelling and technology to create safer communities for women and girls. RollRed Roll is her feature film debut, and goes beyond the headlines of the notoriousSteubenville, Ohio high school sexual assault case to uncover the social-media fueled“boys will be boys” culture that let it happen. Roll Red Roll premiered in 2018 at theTribeca Film Festival and Hot Docs, and has screened at over 40 film festivalsworldwide and garnered 7 best documentary awards. The film opened theatrically at theFilm Forum in New York City and the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Los Angeles touniformly positive reviews with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. It was a Critic’s Pick in TheNew York Times and reviewed in The New Yorker, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, theChicago Tribune, the Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times amongst others. Nancyappeared on CNN’s Amanpour, BBC Women’s Hour and People TV. The film openedthe 32nd season of the acclaimed PBS documentary series POV, broadcast on BBCStoryville in the U.K., and is now streaming in over 100 countries on Netflix.

Roll Red Roll is designed to have a robust impact campaign focusing on engaging menand boys into the solution to end violence against women, as well as engagingcommunities, schools and parents. The impact campaign is supported by the FledglingFund, Bertha Foundation, Perspective and the Ford Foundation.

Nancy released a companion short film Anonymous Comes To Town, co-producedwith the Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci’s Chime for Change, which garnered over amillion views on the Guardian. Her first film, The Line (2010), a short documentaryexamining consent was used by the White House for a campaign around sexuality, andher follow-up film xoxosms (2013), was on PBS/POV and BBC exploring love betweentwo teenagers, bridged by technology.

A globally recognized human rights activist, Nancy is a tech founder and created theObama/Biden’s White House award-winning mobile app Circle of 6 designed to reducesexual violence among America’s youth and college students. Over 350,000 people in36 countries use Circle of 6 and it is currently being adapted for journalists working in Mexico in partnership with Article 19 and the Guardian Project. She has presented herwork at the White House, the United Nations, TEDxSheffield, CNN, Forbes, Good Pitch,DOCNYC and at over 60 colleges and universities. She is a graduate of ColumbiaUniversity.

Follow Nancy on Twitter @fancynancynyc