© Adriana Bosch

Adriana Bosch (Santiago de Cuba, 1955) is an independent documentary filmmaker with over 30 years of experience.

She was a producer of Latino Americans, a six-hour series for PBS (2013). She also produced the series Latin Music USA (2009). Bosch has produced and written several documentaries for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, including the presidential biographies on Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ulysses S. Grant. Bosch also produced and wrote La familia Rockefeller, an award-winning documentary on Fidel Castro (2005). She also produced and wrote a documentary about the Cuban scientist Carlos Finlay (2007). Her latest contributions to PBS are the documentaries American Comandante (2015), about William Alexander Morgan, and Letters to Eloísa (2021), about José Lezama Lima’s letters to his sister.

Bosch’s films have received some of the industry’s most significant awards, including two awards Peabody and an Emmy award. She was also awarded a Hugo de plata at the Chicago International Film Festival, and an Erik Barnouw award. She was nominated for the best documentary of the IDA. She has three nominations for the Gremio de Escritores. Bosch was born in Cuba and holds a Ph.D. in International Affairs from Tufts University.

Filmography

1993-2015: American Experience (TV Documentary Series)

1993: Eisenhower

2000: The Rockefellers

2002: Ulysses S. Grant

2002: Jimmy Carter (Part I and II)

2005: Fidel Castro

2006: The Great Fever

2015: American Comandante

2009: Latin Music USA (TV Documentary Series)

2009: Divas & Superstars

2021: Letters to Eloísa

Nominations and Awards

Ulysses S. Grant

  • Honor Mention, Organization of American Historians, USA, 2006

Fidel Castro

  • Nominated to Writers Guild of America, USA, 2006

Divas & Superstars

  • Nominated to International Documentary Association (IDA) Award, USA, 2010
© Adriana Bosch