Sandi Sissel broke barriers for women in the field of cinematography. Having started out as a cinematographer at NBC and ABC where she received two Emmy awards on “Her Majesty’s Britannia” and coverage of the war in Vietnam, Sissel shot countless segments for ABC’s “20/20,” “Saturday Night Live” and “60 Minutes” during the 1970s and ’80s. She transitioned seamlessly to film, serving as the DP on the Oscar-nominated “Salaam Bombay.” Over the years, she has worked on numerous Oscar and Emmy-winning documentaries including “Jane Goodall: Chimps So Like Us,” “Chisolm 72,” “Free Angela” and “Before Stonewall,” as well as narrative features including Tyler Perry’s “Meet the Brown’s” and Wes Craven’s “The People Under the Stairs.”