CREECA Lecture Series

Robin Hessman has been a documentary filmmaker and producer for the past 20 years. Her critically-acclaimed film, My Perestroika, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010 as part of the US Documentary Competition, aired in 2011 on the PBS independent film series P.O.V. and received a Peabody Award in 2012. Throughout the 1990s she lived in Russia making documentaries and working for Sesame Workshop as the on-site Producer of Ulitsa Sezam, the original Russian language Sesame Street.