Connie Field (producer / director) has worked on numerous dramatic and documentary films as well as independently producing her own work. Her feature documentary, "Freedom on My Mind" (1994) is a history of the civil rights movement in Mississippi. It was nominated for an Academy Award; won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the Sundance Film Festival; Best of Northern California, National Educational Film Festival; Erik Barnouw Award, Organization of American Historians; John O'Connor Award, American Historical Association; Distinguished Documentary Award, International Documentary Association; National Educational Association Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Learning through Broadcasting; and was named "One of the Ten Best Films" of 1994 by a variety of film critics, including the San Francisco Examiner and The Oakland Tribune. It was broadcast on "The American Experience". She was a member of Boston Newsreel Films where she worked on productions and distribution. She was a co-director on "Forever Activists" (1990 Academy Award Nominee, produced & directed by Judy Montell), and she produced, directed and edited the feature documentary "The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter" (1981). "Rosie" earned fifteen international awards for Best Documentary (including Gold Hugo, Chicago; John Grierson, Blue Ribbon, American International Festival; Golden Marazzo, Festival dei Popoli; Gold Award, Houston; Cine Golden Eagle; Golden Athena, Athens Festival; British Academy Award Nominee), was named "One of the Ten Best Films of the Year" by a number of publications, including the Village Voice and Film Comment, was voted "Best Independent Feature of the Year" in American Film Magazine, was translated into ten different languages; and is listed in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. It was broadcast on "The American Experience". "Apartheid and the Club of the West" (2006), story four of "Have You Heard From Johannesburg", a doc series on the international effort to end apartheid in South Africa, won the award for Best Feature Documentary from the Canadian Film Board and the Pan-African Film Festival. She is currently in post production on other episodes of "Have You Heard From Johannesburg" and has just completed a new documentary, ¡Salud! (2007) on Cuba's role in the struggle for global health equity (Audience Award, Pan African Film Festival). She is a recipient of the John Grierson Award as most outstanding social documentarian, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.