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Nancy Schwartzman is a filmmaker. Her documentary film The Line received grants from the Lindberg Family Foundation, the Roy W. Dean foundation, and multiple individual donors. Segments of The Line have screened at the Pioneer Theater in partnership with the NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault, The JWI conference and The Rennert Conference at Barnard College. The film is currently in production and slated to be finished in September of 2008. Nancy also founded the non-profit, non-governmental educational website, NYC-Safestreets.org which creates maps to alerts pedestrians, especially women, to routes that will enhance their travel safety. NYC-Safestreets.org serves as a gateway to connect businesses, community activities and citizens who are working towards building safe communities. NYC-Safestreets has been featured in The New York Daily News, The New York Times and Gothamist. In addition, Nancy curated various short film programs combining documentary,
animation, narrative and experimental work that have screened at international and domestic programs,
including: Cinema Art Protest at Limmud Conference (Nottingham, England); Cinema Art
Protest at Pioneer Theater (New York, USA) and Wandering Eye New York at Limmud Conference
(Nottingham, England) and Wandering Eye Berlin, Judische Kulturtage (Berlin, Germany)
Nancy has been asked to speak on the subjects of Jewish identity in American
and Israeli art and sexual violence at multiple conferences and lectures including (Limmud Conference,
Nottingham England); Rennert Conference at Columbia University's Barnard College (with author Letty Cottin
Pogrebin); Hebrew Union College (with artist Archie Rand and scholar Matthew Baigell); Jewish Women
International Conference (with Dr. Jonathon Stillerman of Men Can Stop Rape); Apex Art Gallery
(with artist and curator Arik Miranda, the Brooklyn District Attorney's office (with Sex Crimes Chief
Rhonnie Jaus); the UJA Task Force Against Domestic Violence (New York); and at the Real Screen Documentary Conference (New York). From 2002-2005, Nancy was a founding editor and Creative Director of Heeb Magazine, where she also curated
photography features and wrote feature articles. She also freelances- curating photography features for magazines, such as Plenty,
and writing for publications such the Independent Film and Video Monthly. In 1997, Nancy graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Art History and Film.
She has lived in New York City for fourteen years, as well as in Jerusalem and Paris. She enjoys New York- style salsa and reggaeton,
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