Nancy Salzer

Nancy Salzer’s non-fiction and essay films and videos have screened internationally at festivals, museums, universities, as well as at conferences and with community groups on topics including gentrification, motherhood and the law. Works include: Excerpts From the Mother Tapes; Survival of a Small City; Once Every Six Miles; Towards the Memory of a Revolution. Recent screenings: The Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (exhibit:The Housing Question); The New Foundation, Seattle; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (exhibit Not Yet: On the Reinvention of Documentary). Other selected screenings include: San Francisco Art Institute Cinematheque; Black Maria Film Festival, Harvard Film Archive; Museum of Modern Art (NYC); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; DIA Foundation (exhibit: If You Lived Here); Festival dei Popoli (Florence), National Film Board of Canada, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center. She received an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BA in Creative Writing and English from Columbia University. Nancy has taught screenwriting (focus: short form narrative), filmmaking, and film studies at UC Irvine, Emerson College, Wellesley College, Harvard, and Tufts University.