Megan Rossman is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and associate professor and chair of communication at Purchase College. Her work has aired on PBS and screened internationally at festivals including Outfest, DOC NYC, BFI Flare, Iris Prize and Cannes Film Festival American Pavilion.
Rossman’s new short documentary Their Voice follows performer Kristyn Michele as they transition from mezzo-soprano to tenor.
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.
Her short, Naomi Replansky at 100, won the audience award at Paris International Lesbian & Feminist Film Festival in 2020. Her film Love Letter Rescue Squad won best student documentary in the Emerging Filmmakers Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival American Pavilion in 2017. She is a recipient of the Princess Grace Award.
Rossman has 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.
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