Deirdre Fishel has been an independent director for decades. Her work primarily focuses on the lives of women and has been broadcast in 35 countries worldwide. Her most recent documentary, Facing the Wind (2024), about two women whose lives are irrevocably changed by their husbands’ diagnosis of Lewy body dementia and their growing friendship (DOC NYC 2024). Deirdre’s earlier feature documentary, Women in Blue (2020) about women officers working to reform the Minneapolis Police Department in the years leading up to the murder of George Floyd, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS’ Independent Lens. Her documentary Care (2016) which looks at the lives of elder care workers and their clients and how America’s care system is failing both. She is a Professor and Director of the BFA Program in Film & Video at the City College of New York.