Marcia Rock

MARCIA ROCK, producer/director/writer, is an author and two-time Emmy award winning independent documentary producer. Her most recent documentary is, “Salt Harvesters of Ghana.” It captures the beauty and dignity of women working in moon-like landscape, caught in an unrelenting cycle of work. It won best short at the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival and was featured at the Sedona Film Festival, The Africa World Film Festival and the Columbus International Film Festival.  (saltharvesters.com)  In 2008 she also produced, "Writers’ Rooms: The Making of a Mural."  It reveals the Elena Climent's  process in researching and  recreating the work spaces of six famous American writers.  The mural is permanently installed in the NYU building, 19 University Place.

Before this, Rock worked with the personal documentary form with her experience framing “Surrender Tango,” on how partnering in tango relates to life, 2006. It was highlighted at the New York Tango Festival and the Milan Documentary Festival. (surrendertango.com)

In 2002 she produced “Dancing with My Father,” a story about how adult love is often shaped by what a child learns at home.  It was included in the Schenectady Jewish Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival, The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Northampton Film Festival, Big Bear Lake International Film Festival, The Cleveland International Film Festival, and was featured at the American Psychological Association and the Family Therapeutic Networker Conference.  dancingwithmyfather.com

Her documentary on the changing role of women in Northern Ireland, Daughters of the Troubles: Belfast Stories, won the American Women in Radio and Television Grand Award and Documentary Award and 1st Place Chris Award from the Columbus International Film & Video Festival. One Emmy was for “McSorley’s New York,” a history of New York's Irish immigrant community.  She also received awards for, “Village Writers:  The Bohemian Legacy,” and “Reynolds Price:  A Writer’s Inheritance.”  She won her first Emmy for The Singing Angels in China, a chronicle of a Cleveland youth choir's trip to China in 1983. In 1988 she and Marlene Sanders co-authored Waiting for Prime Time: The Women of Television News.  Rock is the Director of News and Documentary at New York University Arthur Carter Journalism Institute.