About the Filmmakers
Greg Mitchell (Writer/Director)
Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books and writer-director of three documentary films since 2021. His film, "The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair," premiered on KCET last October and was broadcast by hundreds of PBS stations around the country. His latest book, to be published in May 2023, is the companion to his current film, "The Memorial Day Massacre."
Earlier books include "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.
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 award-winning "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 was also the longtime editor of Editor & Publisher magazine.
Lyn Goldfarb (Producer)
Lyn Goldfarb is an Oscar-nominated and award-winning independent documentary filmmaker with 20 documentaries broadcast on PBS.
Her feature documentaries include: "Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race;" "The New Los Angeles;" "Danger: Kids at Work;" and the Oscar-nominated "With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade." She produced the PBS series: "The Roman Empire in the First Century," "Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire," and "California and the American Dream," and directed documentaries for the PBS series: "The Great Depression," "The Great War" and "People in Motion." Her short documentaries include: "Eddy’s World;" "Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried;" "The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair;" "L.A. Working/Trabajamos Los Angeles" (for the Los Angeles exhibit at the Guadalajara International Book Fair); and "Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons From Sinai for the J. Paul Getty Museum."
Lyn Goldfarb is a member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; Directors Guild of America; Writers Guild of America; and the International Documentary Association.
In addition to her work as a filmmaker, Goldfarb is the creative producer for Pando Days, an environmental nonprofit working with colleges and universities in Southern California; and serves as a Los Angeles County Commissioner for the Personal Assistance Services Council.