Rachel Gordon currently works independently in marketing and distributing independent documentaries and foreign feature films. She previously worked for the Anti-Defamation League running their resource catalog of educational films and books dealing with racism, bigotry, and hate crimes. Before joining the ADL, she assisted the National Film Board of Canada in distributing their documentary and animated films in the United States to socially-aware organizations, schools, and libraries. She has worked in various capacities on several feature films and produced short films for the past ten years. She participated in several of the 48 Hour Project contests, both the New York version and the National Challenge. One of the final products, Writing on the Wall, was chosen as part of the Best of New York and is part of the Annual Program Without Frontiers based in San Francisco. Another of these projects, Bench Warmers, has just begun its festival circuit, screening at Valley Film Festival in Los Angeles and Miami Short Film Festival. She currently has two projects in the post-production phase: a satirical short entitled The Water Cooler and a feature-length documentary about Asian American police women in New York called Tea & Justice. Her video project from 2002, Room Tone, screened at festivals across the United States.
Rachel provided script coverage for over five years, for such companies as Tribeca Productions, Open City Films, Walden Media, and Apex Entertainment. She also contributes film reviews and articles to filmcritic.com, Cinemad, and ToxicUniverse.com, the latter a site she helped found and for which she still aids in business operations. Interviewees she has profiled include Campbell Scott, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, and Jay Craven. She is a member of the Online Film Critics Society.
