Abby Ginzberg is an independent documentary film director and producer and founder of Ginzberg Productions. For the past 30 years, Ginzberg has been creating films that tackle discrimination and the legal profession.

Career

She graduated from UC Hastings College of the Law in 1975, and taught at Boalt Hall School of Law from 1975 to 1976, and at New College School of Law from 1981 to 1985. In 2005, Ginzberg released the documentary Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson’s American Journey, which profiled federal district judge Thelton Henderson. Another film, A Tale of Two Cities, discusses the difficulty of forming high-school education for disadvantaged juvenile youths. Her film, Doing Justice: The Life and Trials of Arthur Kinoy, won a number of awards. She also directed the Peabody award-winning film, Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa. The documentary, which was supported by the Ford Foundation, chronicled the life of anti-apartheid freedom fighter and former Constitutional Court judge Albie Sachs, who lost an arm and an eye in an attack by the South African security services in Mozambique in 1988. In 2015, Ginzberg collaborated with filmmaker Frank Dawson on Agents of Change, a documentary that profiles the black student movement on college campuses in the late 1960’s that led to the creation of Ethnic studies departments at San Francisco State University and Cornell University. Ginzberg is a member of Film Fatales women directors of independent film.

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Filmography

Everyday Heroes (Documentary, 2001) Director & Producer Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey (Documentary, 2005) Director & Producer Cruz Reynoso: Sowing the Seeds of Justice (2010) Director & Producer The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement (Documentary short, 2011) Consulting Producer Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa (Documentary, 2014) Director & Producer Agents of Change (Documentary, 2016) Co-Director & Co-Producer And Then They Came for Us (Documentary, 2017) Co-Director & Producer Waging Change(Documentary,2019) Director and Producer '’ Barbara Lee:Speaking Truth to Power”(Documentary, 2020) Director & Producer American Justice on Trial (Documentary short, 2022) Co-Producer