Rachel Goldberg is an award-winning filmmaker whose most recent film, “Muted” starring Chandra Wilson (Grey’s Anatomy) and Malcolm-Jamal Warner (The Cosby Show) won the HBO Short Film Award at the American Black Film Festival and will air on HBO. The film also received the Director’s Choice Award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. As a participant in AFI’s prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, Rachel co-wrote and directed the short film “Neighbors” which was developed into Transformation Awaits. “Neighbors” has screened at numerous festivals including The Seattle Transgender Film Festival where it garnered Best Narrative Short, and at the Palm Springs International ShortFest, the Nashville Film Festival and the Rhode Island International Film Festival where it won the Alternative Spirit Award. Rachel was a Film Independent Project: Involve Writing/Directing Fellow, where she wrote and directed the award-winning “Rosita Lopez for President,” which has screened at the Athens Film + Video Festival, the BET/HBO Urbanworld Film Festival and many more. Rachel has also directed award-winning music videos, independent television pilots and numerous stage productions. Her work has been described as “poetry in motion” by the LA Weekly and”stunning”by the LA Stage Scene. As a playwright, Rachel’s work has been staged on both coasts, and she has been commissioned to write for film and television. Rachel earned her BA in Theater from the University of Pennsylvania, and her MFA in Directing from the California Institute of the Arts. Transformation Awaits is currently a quarterfinalist for the Academy’s Nicholl Fellowship.