Megan Rossman is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and Associate Professor and Chair of Communication at Purchase College. Her work explores the LGBTQIA+ experience and has aired on PBS and screened internationally at over 125 festivals including Outfest, DOC NYC, BFI Flare, Iris Prize and Cannes Film Festival American Pavilion.
She recently completed We’ll Carry on Alright which focuses on the friendship between Mabel Hampton, an African American, lesbian, and activist, and Joan Nestle, a white, lesbian and Jewish professor who is 40 years her junior.
Her feature-length debut, The Archivettes has screened as an official selection at over 75 film festivals. The Hollywood Reporter called the documentary a “warm tribute to second-wave feminism.” The Queer Review called it “a gift to the future.” It has won various awards, including the audience award at Reeling and the jury award at Centro Niemeyer International Festival de Cine.
Rossman has directed short films including Their Voice (2023), Naomi Replansky at 100 (2020 Audience Award Winner, Paris International Lesbian & Feminist Film Festival) and Love Letter Rescue Squad (2017 Audience Award Winner, NewFest and Best Student Documentary, Emerging Filmmakers Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival American Pavilion). She is a recipient of the Princess Grace Award.
Rossman also worked as a multimedia journalist at The Washington Post and as the director of video at Teach For America. In 2011, she won an Emmy for her video Unfinished Business: Earth Day, 40 Years Later. In 2009, Rossman collaborated on “A Mother’s Risk,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. She is a lead instructor at The School of The New York Times.
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