About the Filmmakers

Greg Mitchell (Writer/Director)

Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including "The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics," winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize and one of five finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards. It was later named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the five greatest books every written about an election race.

His previous film, the award-winning feature "Atomic Cover-up," drew wide acclaim in 2021. He also co-produced another festival favorite, "Following the Ninth," in 2014.

Among his other books are the bestselling "The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill" (2016), "The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood―and America―Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (2020), as well as the earlier "Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1950" (2012) and "Hiroshima in America" (1995). He has written about the 1934 campaign several times for The New York Times, and also for the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, American Film, and numerous other magazines.

Lyn Goldfarb (Producer)

Lyn Goldfarb is an Academy Award-nominated and award-winning independent documentary filmmaker, with 19 films broadcast nationally on PBS and major cable. Her latest documentary short, the Emmy-nominated "Eddy's World," played at more than 40 film festivals, winning Best Short Documentary at the Port Townsend Film Festival, and is featured on The New Yorker's site. Her feature films include: "With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade;" "Danger: Kids at Work;" "People in Motion: Ways to Move;" "The New Los Angeles;" "Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race;" and the series: "Empires: The Roman Empire in the First Century," "Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire," and "California and the American Dream."

Goldfarb was director, producer and writer of "We Have a Plan," an episode in the acclaimed 1993 "The Great Depression" series, produced by Blackside, Inc. The documentary included Upton Sinclair’s campaign as part of its story of the social and political upheavals that shook the nation in 1934. Greg Mitchell served as principal advisor. Goldfarb conducted the interviews featured in "The First Attack Ads."