Hazel Gurland-Pooler is a Colombian-born, NYC-based director/producer and documentary filmmaker. She directed 10 episodes of PBS's “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” and co-produced the 6-hour “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,” also with Gates Jr., which won Emmy, Peabody, duPont-Columbia, and NAACP Image awards. “Storming Caesars Palace,” her first feature-length documentary, won film festival awards, broadcast on Independent Lens in March 2023 and is now streaming on the PBS App.