title: Pam Sporn
text: # Pam Sporn
  
  Pam Sporn is a filmmaker and teacher. Her documentaries have won several film festival awards.
  
  ## Career
  
  Her work has covered such topics as Cuban cigar rollers, an annual dance, and the story of a family that emigrated from Cuba to the United States, as well as "homelessness, teen pregnancy and police brutality."
  
  ## Films
  
  * "Disobeying Orders: GI Resistance to the Vietnam War"
  * "Cuban Roots, Bronx Stories"
  * "Con El Toque de la Chavetta" ("With the Stroke of the Chavetta")
  * "Recordando El Mamoncillo" ("Remembering the Mamoncillo Tree")
  * "Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route"
  
  ## Awards
  
  * 1997 BRIO award
  * 2007 BRIO award
  * 2008 Cine Las Americas International Film Festival's Jury Award for Best Documentary Short for "Con El Toque de la Chavetta" ("With the Stroke of the Chavetta")
  * 2010 BRIO award
  