Upon graduation, Gund moved to New York City to do the Whitney Independent Study Program and joined ACT UP. She co-founded DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activist Television), the AIDS activist video collective affiliated with ACT UP/NY whose productions included
Target City Hall, ''Pride '69-'89
, Like a Prayer
, and Stop the Church''. During this time, she also became involved with
Paper Tiger Television, a collectively produced weekly public access show, and contributed to shows from 1987-1994. In 1996, Gund founded Aubin Pictures, a nonprofit
documentary film company with scholar and activist Scot Nakagawa. She produced Aubin's first film,
When Democracy Works (1996), that same year, in a three-part focus on stories of multi-issue organizing. Three years later, she produced and directed the feature documentary
Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance (1998) about controversial and iconoclastic performance artist
Ron Athey, and co-directed
Object Lessons (1999) along with Catherine Lord, which uses the creation of a gallery exhibition to question received ideas about lesbian visibility, community, culture, and identity. In 2000 she produced
On Hostile Ground, a documentary about three abortion providers working in the USA. It was broadcast on the
Sundance Channel. In 2004, she produced
Making Grace, documenting the journey of a lesbian couple having a baby together. Gund's documentary,
A Touch of Greatness (2004), about the revolutionary teaching practices of elementary school teacher Albert Cullum, was nominated for a
News and Documentary Emmy. The film also won Best Documentary award at
Hamptons International Film Festival in 2004. She produced
Motherland Afghanistan in 2006 about an OB/GYN struggling to make a difference in his homeland of Afghanistan, first at Kabul's renamed
Laura Bush Maternity Ward and then in an isolated provincial hospital where patients often travel for several days to get treatment. Broadcast on PBS/Independent Lens. In 2009, Gund produced and directed a segment for Sesame Street called
Rhyme Time (2009) with poet Idris Goodwin about kids and healthy eating. ''What's On Your Plate?'' (2009), a documentary directed by Gund and two eleven-year-old girls about healthy, sustainable eating from a kid's perspective, premiered at the
Berlin International Film Festival and was featured in the
Discovery Channel's Planet Green.
Chavela (2017) follows the life and legend of lesbian Mexican ranchera chanteuse Chavela Vargas.
Dispatches from Cleveland (2017) about how communities in Cleveland united to fight for justice in the face of police violence after the death of
Tamir Rice.
Aggie (2020) is a feature-length documentary that explores the nexus of art, race, and justice through the story of her mother, powerhouse art collector Agnes "Aggie" Gund. The film chronicles Agnes Gund's stunning journey to sell a
Roy Lichtenstein painting to invest in the Art for Justice Fund. The film premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival in 2020 and was released theatrically in October 2020. Gund produced
America (2018), a short film directed by Garrett Bradley. Gund produced
Primera (2021) for HBO that told the story of four parents-turned activists leading Chile's revolutionary path to a new constitution. She also produced
Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison (2022) (formerly
A Peculiar Silence), a short film directed by Cinque Northern about Liza Jessie Peterson's shutdown 2020 performance of her acclaimed play
The Peculiar Patriot at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola. Her archival footage has been featured in numerous TV Shows and films, including
How to Survive a Plague,
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, the 2012 documentary
Koch,
VICE Special Report: Countdown to Zero,
Fauci (2022),
Cured (2020), and
Larry Kramer in Love and Anger (2015). Gund currently serves on the boards of Art For Justice Fund, Art Matters, and is the Chair of
The George Gund Foundation. She was the founder and a founding board member of JustMedia. She was a founding board member of Baldwin for the Arts and currently serves on their advisory board. She also co-founded the
Third Wave Foundation, an organization that resources youth-led, intersectional, gender justice movements. She was the founding director of BENT TV, the video workshop for LGBTQI youth, and was on the founding boards of Iris House, Working Films, Reality Dance Company, and The Sister Fund. Previously, Gund has served on the boards of Bard Early Colleges, Osa Conservation, MediaRights.org, The Robeson Fund of the Funding Exchange, The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, and the Astraea Foundation. == Filmography ==