Tami Gold

Who is Tami Gold?

Tami Kashia Gold a lesbian is a documentary filmmaker, visual artist and educator. She is also a Professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York in the Department of Film and Media Studies. She has four daughters and three grandchildren. As a teenager, Tami studied in Mexico and Cuba where she was first introduced to the documentary filmmaking of Santiago Álvarez who had a major influence on her work.

In 1970 she began working with the New York based Newsreel Film Collective. While in the Newsreel collective, Tami produced and directed the docu-drama My Country Occupied in 1971. My County Occupied is a B&W 16mm docu-drama on the life of a Guatemalan woman. My Country Occupied won First Place winner in the Leipzig Film Festival and was featured at the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.

Tami is also a visual artist whose work has been presented at galleries such as Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, Exposico-na-Gravura, Brasileira, Brazil and her work is part of a print collection at the Pinacoteca do Estado Museum in São Paulo. She is a member of the SONYA arts group in Brooklyn.