Director

Sheila Curran Bernard is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, author, and educator based in upstate New York. She is credited on nearly 50 hours of prime time broadcast and theatrical programming, including the feature documentary Slavery by Another Name, and is the author of Documentary Storytelling, now going into its fifth edition and available in Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, Polish, and Japanese with an Arabic edition due out soon. With Kenn Rabin, she is also the author of Archival Storytelling, now in its second edition. Bernard has led master classes and served on festival juries in Poland, Norway, Belgium, and the United States. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College and is an associate professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York.