Marlene Booth is an award-winning filmmaker who has worked in film since 1975, both as an independent filmmaker and for public television station WGBH-TV in Boston. A graduate of Beloit College (B.A.) and Yale University (M.F.A.), Booth has produced and directed a number of major documentary films, such as Yidl in the Middle, a documentary film about growing up Jewish in Iowa; The Forward: From Immigrants to Americans; When I Was Fourteen: A Survivor Remembers; and The Double Burden: Three Generations of Working Mothers.