Field is a recipient of the John Grierson Award as most outstanding social documentarian, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the founder and president of Clarity Films. "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?" (2006-2008), a documentary series on the global effort to end Apartheid in South Africa, was awarded Best Documentary Feature by the National Film Board of Canada at the 2006 Vancouver Film Festival.
¡SALUD! (2006) looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls "one of the world's best health systems." From the shores of Africa to the Americas, ¡SALUD! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba -- now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA.
Field was a director on FOREVER ACTIVISTS: STORIES FROM THE VETERANS OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE (1990) (Academy Award® nominee), and her feature documentary, FREEDOM ON MY MIND (1994), a history of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, was nominated for an Academy Award and earned several other honors, including the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival; Erik Barnouw Award, Organization of American Historians; John O'Connor Award, American Historical Association; and Distinguished Documentary Award, International Documentary Association. It was named "One of the Ten Best Films" of 1994 by a variety of film critics and was also broadcast on "The American Experience" (PBS).
Field produced, directed and edited the feature documentary THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER (1981). ROSIE earned fifteen awards for Best Documentary (including Gold Hugo, Chicago; John Grierson, Blue Ribbon, American International Festival; Golden Marazzo, Festival dei Popoli; Cine Golden Eagle; Golden Athena, Athens Festival; British Academy Award Nominee); was named "One of the Ten Best Films of the Year" by several publications (including the Village Voice and Film Comment); was voted "Best Independent Feature of the Year" in American Film Magazine; was translated into ten languages and is listed in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. It was broadcast on "The American Experience" (PBS).
Nominated for Achievement in Documentary Features 1994: FREEDOM ON MY MIND - Producer (w. Marilyn Mulford)
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