Roll Red Roll

Nancy Schwartzman - Director/Producer

Nancy Schwartzman is a documentary Peabody Award Nominated director director, producer, and media strategist who uses storytelling and technology to create safer communities for women and girls. Roll Red Roll is her feature film debut, and goes beyond the headlines of the notorious Steubenville, Ohio high school sexual assault case to uncover the social-media fueled “boys will be boys” culture that let it happen. Roll Red Roll premiered in 2018 at the Tribeca Film Festival and Hot Docs, and has screened at over 40 film festivals worldwide and garnered 7 best documentary awards. The film opened theatrically at the Film Forum in New York City and the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Los Angeles to uniformly positive reviews with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. It was a Critic’s Pick in The New York Times and reviewed in The New Yorker, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, the Chicago Tribune, the Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times amongst others. Nancy appeared on CNN’s Amanpour, BBC Women’s Hour and People TV. The film opened the 32nd season of the acclaimed PBS documentary series POV, broadcast on BBC Storyville in the U.K., and is now streaming in 190 countries on Netflix.

She is currently directing a documentary feature with Reveal: Center for Investigative Reporting, and in development on two non-fiction series with XTR and Blumhouse. She is publishing a forthcoming book with Hachette slated for 2021. Her newest short film One Shot One Kill, for Mother Jones will be released in September 2020.

Roll Red Roll‘s impact campaign focuses on engaging men and boys to become leaders in the solution to end violence against women. The campaign works with communities, schools, teams and parents on the fight to end rape culture. The impact campaign is supported by the Fledgling Fund, Bertha Foundation, Perspective and the Ford Foundation.

Her newest short One Shot One Kill is an immersive verite documentary about hunters and the debate about the second amendment. It will be released with Mother Jones and financed by Chicken & Egg.

Nancy released a companion short film Anonymous Comes To Town, co-produced with the Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci’s Chime for Change, which garnered over a million views on the Guardian. Her first film, The Line (2010), a short documentary examining consent was used by the White House for a campaign around sexuality, and her follow-up film xoxosms (2013), was on PBS/POV and BBC exploring love between two teenagers, bridged by technology.

A globally recognized human rights activist, Nancy is a tech founder and created the Obama/Biden’s White House award-winning mobile app Circle of 6 designed to reduce sexual violence among America’s youth and college students. Over 350,000 people in 36 countries use Circle of 6 and it is currently being adapted for journalists working in Mexico in partnership with Article 19 and the Guardian Project. She has presented her work at the White House, the United Nations, TEDxSheffield, CNN, Forbes, Good Pitch, DOCNYC and at over 60 colleges and universities. She is a graduate of Columbia University.

Steven Lake - Producer

Steven Lake is a documentary producer creating social impact films with commercial reach. He is the producer of Roll Red Roll which premiered at Tribeca 2018, screened at over 40 international festivals and went on to have a theatrical run in the U.S. The film was called ‘essential viewing’ – Hollywood Reporter, ‘Raw and pressing’ – Anthony Lane, The New Yorker and was Critic’s Pick for the New York Times. His feature debut documentary, DRYING FOR FREEDOM (Amazon Prime), and was the winner of Climate Week’s Best Artistic Response Award. Steven is specializing in security conscious film-making, using new technologies to create safe and secure workflows for films to protect them and their highly sensitive content. He has produced work in collaboration with The Guardian and Gucci, Doc Society, TFI, Ford Foundation, Fork Films and the BFI.