Randy Bell is a New York-based independent filmmaker. His documentary films, which explore subjects as diverse as American popular music, mid-century European modernist architecture, and the AIDS orphan crisis in Kenya, have won awards from the Cleveland International Film Festival, the New England Film and Video Festival, and the Ivy Film Festival. They have been honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the African Studies Association, and Harvard University, and they have screened at film festivals, independent movie theaters, and universities internationally. Randy has received major grant support for filmmaking from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Flora Family Foundation, the Wellspring Foundation, the Pannonia Foundation, the Strauss Foundation, and the O'Reilly Foundation.