jon goldman

Jon Goldman is an award-winning filmmaker, animator and media artist. Since training at MIT’s Center For Advanced Visual Studies in the 1980s where he received his Masters, Jon has produced documentaries and an Emmy-nominated short form animation for organizations such as Al Jazeera International, WGBHLAB BOSTON, and the Discovery Channel. For Al Jazeera he produced Wilma’s Warning profiling a MacArthur-award winning environmental justice advocate and the Katrina/RITA storm surge covering its role in high toxicity in the gulf region. His current film, OIL IN THE FAMILY follows Goldman as he unearths his own deep Louisiana roots and his family’s connection to the oil industry. In interviews (both pre and post Gulf Spill) ,through his own animation and through his grandmother’s connection to the controversial film “Louisiana Story” he discovers the real costs of progress on the people and the land of his great grandfather. http://oilfilms.com