Tami Gold joined the Newsreel Film Collective in response to the political turmoil that surrounded the Vietnam War, Civil Rights, and Women’s Movements. It was during this time that she made her first film, MY COUNTRY OCCUPIED with Heather (Archibald) Lewis.

Since then, Gold has produced many critically acclaimed documentary films that have consistently been at the forefront of social issues, looking at racism, police violence, women’s rights, conditions for workers and labor organizing, violence, and discrimination against LGBT people.

Over the years Gold has been the recipient of Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and Fulbright Fellowships; Tribeca Audience Award; GLAAD Media Award; Urban Visionaries Award, Museum of Television and Radio; NY/NJ Video Arts Fellowships; Excellence in the Arts Award from the Manhattan Borough President; AFI Independent Filmmakers Production Fellowship. Some of her films have been presented at MOMA, the Whitney, the Chicago Arts Institute, the Kennedy Center, the American and British Film Institutes, Sundance, Tribeca, the New York Film Festival, Slamdance, and in over 150 film festivals worldwide.

In 1988, Gold was invited to join the faculty at Hunter College, CUNY, where she developed the video production curriculum, LGBTQ Media Studies, and led student exchanges to Cuba and South Africa and directed the James Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism.