Beth Sternheimer

Beth Sternheimer is a producer and researcher for documentaries and museum projects and has taught at Chicago Filmmakers since 2009. She co-produced THE CALLING, a four-hour PBS series by The Kindling Group that broadcast nationally on PBS in Fall 2010. Beth was the Associate Producer for SECRECY, an independent film on government secrecy and for TRACES OF THE TRADE, which chronicles the descendants of the largest slave trading family in US history as they retrace the Triangle Trade. Both films premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and Beth was nominated for a 2009 national Emmy Award for Outstanding Research on TRACES OF THE TRADE. Beth’s museum work includes producing exhibit videos for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the National Archives.