Talent Guide
Linda Goldstein Knowlton
- Discipline:Director, Producer
- Program Year:Fast Track 2025
Bio
Linda Goldstein Knowlton is an Emmy-nominated and award-winning filmmaker, whose most recent film Split At The Root is on Netflix. She started her career producing scripted films, including the award-winning Whale Rider, and began directing/producing documentaries in 2003. Her films include: We Are The Radical Monarchs (SXSW/PBS); The World According to Sesame Street (Sundance/PBS); the Women and Hollywood episode of PBS’ Women Who Make America and Somewhere Between (Hot Docs Film Festival/released theatrically in over 80 cities in the U.S.) She is a member of the AMPAS and the DGA.
Current Project
Love and Justice: The Arlene Carmen StoryLogline
Arlene Carmen was the Administrator of Judson Memorial Church from 1967 to 1994. In partnership with Reverend Howard Moody, she ran the multi-denominational Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, which connected 500,000 women to safe abortion care prior to Roe Wade, created a ministry for street walking prostitutes and distributed experimental treatments to early AIDS patients from the church garden room. Much of their work was illegal.