Panel Q&A with Filmmakers George Kunhardt and Teddy Kunhardt alongside Journalist Lynn Povich moderated by Jackie Glover

Monday, Mar. 24 2025, 7:00

• George Kunhardt is a four-time Emmy Award winning director and producer. His upcoming film, Becoming Katharine Graham, airs in 2025. He is an Executive Producer of the ongoing docuseries, The Thread. His past films include The Silent Witness (2023, Emmy Winner), Fragments of Paradise (2022, Venice Film Festival Winner), Lincoln’s Dilemma (Apple TV+, 2021), A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks (HBO, 2021), True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight For Equality (HBO, 2019, Emmy Award and Peabody Award Winner) among many more. A Wheaton College graduate, he is a founding board member and Executive Director of Life Stories, a division of The Kunhardt Film Foundation. He lives in Bedford, New York, with his wife, Jackie, and their sons, George Jr. and James.
• Teddy Kunhardt is a four-time Emmy-winning filmmaker, known for True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality (Emmy and Peabody winner). His recent projects include Emmy winning The Silent Witness, The Thread interview series, Lincoln’s Dilemma, and Fragments of Paradise (Venice Film Festival winner). Past work includes A Choice of Weapons, Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union, and King in the Wilderness. A Skidmore College graduate, he is a founding board member and Executive Director of Life Stories, a division of the Kunhardt Film Foundation. He lives in Chappaqua, New York, with his wife, Sarah, and their children, Henry and Beatrice.
• Lynn Povich is an award-winning journalist with over 40 years in the news industry. She began as a secretary in Newsweek’s Paris bureau, later becoming a reporter and writer. In 1970, she was among 46 women who filed sex discrimination charges against the magazine. Five years later, she became Newsweek’s first female Senior Editor. Her book, The Good Girls Revolt (2012), inspired an Amazon series. She later led Working Woman and was East Coast Managing Editor of MSNBC.com. A recipient of the Matrix Award, she serves on several advisory boards. She is married to Stephen Shepard, former BusinessWeek Editor-in-Chief, and they have two children.
• Jackie Glover spent more than 27 years at HBO, rising to SVP of HBO Documentary Films, overseeing all aspects of the department’s programming, including development, acquisitions and production. A nine-time Emmy winner, her producing credits include True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality, King in the Wilderness—a portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final years — and Jim: The James Foley Story. She was Head of Documentary Programming at Onyx Collective, Disney’s slate of premium entertainment programming by creators of color and underrepresented voices—winning an Oscar in 2022 for the extraordinary music documentary—Summer of Soul.

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