Nancy Kates

Nancy Kates is an autonomous filmmaker grounded in the Bay Area of San Francisco. She directed Regarding Susan Sontag, a highlighted biopic about the former author, novelist, and activist. Nancy used archival recording, conferences, still photos and imageries from popular ethos.

This film replicates the audaciousness of Sontag’s effort and the ethnic significance of her notions. Upon obtaining backing from the Foundation for Jewish Culture and Sundance Documentary Film Production. One of her earlier films comprises of Castro Cowboy, a film about the dear departed Marlboro model Christen Haren.

The model perished of AIDS in 1996. Some of her other works are Joining the Tribe, Married People, and Going to Extremes. A graduate of Harvard University, Kates worked for more than a few years at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government writing.

She is a former producer of the PBS Computer Chronicles and has worked on various documented projects. She also addresses often at schools, colleges, and academies. In 1995, Kates' master's hypothesis for Stanford University's film show, Their Own Vietnam.

She won a Student Academy Award for movies. The film tells the story of five American womenfolk who assist in the Vietnam Battle. Including a duo who met while working. It displays an intricate picture of their individualities.

Using archival material, homegrown pictures, and photographs. The film broadcasted at the Sundance Film Festival, the Boston International Festival of Women’s Cinema. The picture received an accolade of excellence from the David Wolper Awards / International Documentary Association.

The film praised by the Journal of American History that the honesty with which the war was brought to light captivated them. Kates is mainly known for her movie Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, a biography she completed with co-producer Bennett Singer around Bayard Rustin, the gay rights leader.

The film was showcased at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and achieved numerous awards. Embracing the 2004 GLAAD Media Award and audience awards as the foremost American gay and lesbian film centenaries. It also received the honor for the best representative movie at New York’s New Festival.

The struggle for African-American self-esteem, Rustin is possibly the most detailed figure that many people have never heard. But neither usual culture nor even the civil rights headship could survive with his morality. The Village Voice praises the film for intensely fetching back to existence a man who profoundly and luminously shaped the course of the civil rights and peace movements.

The Wall Street Journal addressed it as marvelous. The New York Times exclaimed the movie to be "packed with information" and The Boston Globe said that the project was beautifully crafted.