Sharon Sopher is an Emmy® winning producer/director television producer and filmmaker in the 1970s, '80s and '90s who has won world acclaim for her documentaries on Africa, including WITNESS TO APARTHEID (1986) and PRAYING FOR RAIN (1997). As a woman with AIDS, Sopher made a very personal documentary, "HIV Goddesses: Stories of Courage -- Diary of a Filmmaker". The film, which won the 2005 Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism, is the first film by a woman with AIDS. It depicts her life of traveling and filming in Africa, then falling ill, discovering her disease and struggling to regain her health and some dignity and to go on with her life and work. She hopes it will be the first of a film trilogy about AIDS in America.  Nominated for Documentary (Features) 1986: WITNESS TO APARTHEID - Producer 1 nomination