Sheila Curran Bernard is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning writer, filmmaker, and educator. Documentary credits include Slavery By Another Name (PBS); Jerusalem (IMAX 3-D), and the PBS series “Eyes On the Prize” and “I’ll Make Me a World.” Her books include Documentary Storytelling, a pioneering work on the use of dramatic storytelling tools to strengthen nonfiction media, now going into its 5th edition (2021) and widely translated, and (with Kenn Rabin), Archival Storytelling, now going into its 2nd edition (2020). She’s led master classes and served as a jurist at festivals in Poland, Norway, Belgium, the UK and the U.S., and is an associate professor in the Department of History and the Documentary Studies Program at the University at Albany, SUNY, where she directs the Institute for History and Public Engagement.
