NADINE M. PATTERSON is an award winning independent writer/producer/director who works at the crossroads of narrative and documentary cinema. She earned her Master of Arts in Filmmaking at the London Film School. She operates the production and consulting company Harmony Image Productions with her mother, producer Marlene G. Patterson. Their films such as Moving with the Dreaming, Anna Russell Jones, and Tango Macbeth have screened on public television and at film festivals around the world. She has worked with Scribe Video Center and community based filmmakers as an instructor, facilitator, and producer since 1991. In 2016 she founded the Abierto Media Fund of Bread & Roses to support socially conscious independent filmmakers in Pennsylvania. She was the Visiting Documentary Filmmaker at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, PA Fall 2016 and she currently serves as the Outreach Producer for Black Ballerina.