Washington, DC based filmmaker Aviva Kempner has been making award winning documentaries about unrecognized Jewish heroes for 44 years. Kempner just completed A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings (2023). She co-directed, co-wrote and co-produced Imagining the Indians: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting (2022), a documentary on the movement to remove Native American names, logos, and mascots from the world of sports. Her The Spy Behind Home Plate (2019) is about baseball player and OSS spy Moe Berg. Kempner made Rosenwald (2015), a documentary about how philanthropist Julius Rosenwald partnered with Booker T. Washington in establishing over 5,000 schools for African Americans in the Jim Crow South. She also made Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009), about Gertrude Berg who created the first television sitcom. She also wrote and directed the short film Today I Vote for My Joey (2002), a tragic comedy about the 2000 Presidential Elections in Palm Beach County. Kempner directed the Peabody awarded The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1999), about the Hall of Famer slugger who faced anti-Semitism during the 1930s. She also produced the award-winning Partisans of Vilna (1986), about Jews fighting the Nazis. She is presently finishing a film on famous screenwriter and journalist Ben Hecht, who was an activist who exposed the horrors of the Holocaust to the American public and advocated to bring more Jews to U.S. shores. Kempner is also making Pissed Off, a documentary short exploring the struggles faced by female lawmakers in Congress who advocated for potty parity in the United States Capitol. Kempner is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.