GRANTS  AWARDED

 

Black Public Media  •  Corporation for Public Broadcasting  •  Duke University  •  Firelight Media Next Step Fund  •  The Ford Foundation  •  Independent Television Service (ITVS)  •  LEF Foundation  •  National Endowment for the Arts  •  National Endowment for the Humanities  •  New York State Council on the Arts  •  New York Women in Film and Television  •  The Puffin Foundation

 

 

PRODUCER / DIRECTOR / EDITOR

 

Blueprint For My People

Paradox Films

Distribution: Third World Newsreel

Awards:

Best Editor, Glass Ceiling Breakers Film Festival 2025

Best Short Documentary, Denton Black Film Festival 2025

Finalist, Hobnobben Film Festival 2024

Group Exhibitions:

Within/Without, Riverfront Gallery, Yonkers, NY 2024

Cause We Be Complicated: Dialogues of Black Artists, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY 2023

Cause We Be Complicated: Dialogues of Black Artists, Art/Design/Spirit Gallery, Newburgh, NY 2023

 

Black When I’m Blue (Part 1)

Paradox Films

Group Exhibitions:

Film Fest, The Pictorial Foundation, Newburgh, NY, 2026

From Atlanta to Venus, Torrents, Washington, DC, 2024

 

Windows

Paradox Films

Distribution: YouTube

Awards:

Special Mention, One-Reeler Short Film Competition 2025

Best Music Video Nomination, Transparent Film Festival 2024

 

Morning at Hemlock Hill Farm

Paradox Films

Group Exhibitions:

Winter’s Calling, Riverfront Art Gallery, Yonkers, NY 2023

Grass + Roots, Putnam Arts Council, Mahopac, NY 2021

 

 

PRODUCER / DIRECTOR

 

Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band

Paradox Films

Distribution: PBS, Showtime, Kanopy

Awards:

Outstanding Independent Documentary, Black Reel Awards 2016

Programmers’ Award for Documentary, Pan African Film Festival 2015

HBO Award for Best Documentary, Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival 2015

Saatchi & Saatchi Award for Best Achievement in Film, Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival 2015

 

 

ARCHIVAL PRODUCER

 

Tell Them We Are Rising; The Story of Black Colleges and Universities

Firelight Films  (Stanley Nelson and Marco Williams, Directors)

Distribution: PBS, Independent Lens series

 

Freedom Riders

Firelight Films (Stanley Nelson, Director)

Distribution: PBS, American Experience series

Awards:

Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming, Primetime Emmy, 2011

Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming, Primetime Emmy, 2011

Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking, Primetime Emmy 2011

 

African Burial Ground

Firethorn Productions, (Madison Davis Lacy, Director)

Center for New York City’s African Burial Ground Memorial

 

Aaron Douglas Project

Firethorn Productions, (Madison Davis Lacy, Director)

Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas

 

African American Lives

Kunhardt Productions

National PBS broadcast

 

Banished

Two-Tone Productions (Marco Williams, Director)

PBS, Independent Lens series

 

Freedom Summer

Two-Tone Productions (Marco Williams, Director)

The History Channel

COORDINATING PRODUCER

Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise

Firelight Films (Stanley Nelson and Marcia Smith, Executive Producers)

National PBS broadcast

DIRECTOR / CINEMATOGRAPHER

Take Back the Courts

Firelight Films  (Stanley Nelson, Producer)

Award:

Felix A. Fishman Award, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, 2004

CINEMATOGRAPHER

A Place Like This

A Girl With A Gap Productions (Yvonne Kenney, Director)

Awards:

Best Documentary, Westchester Film Festival, 2004

Best Documentary, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival, 2004

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER / CINEMATOGRAPHER

A Place of Our Own

Firelight Films (Stanley Nelson, Director)

PBS, Independent Lens series

Awards:

Best Documentary, Starz Denver Film Festival, 2004

Best Feature Length Documentary, Pan-African Film Festival, 2004

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

This Far By Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys (Hour Five)

Blackside, Inc. (Valerie Linson, Director)

National PBS broadcast

BROADCAST ASSOCIATE

Eye to Eye with Connie Chung

CBS News (Andrew Heyward, Executive Producer)

60 Minutes

CBS News (Don Hewitt, Executive Producer)

Award:

Segment: What About Prozac?

(Catherine Olian, Producer; Lesley Stahl, Correspondent)

American Psychiatric Association’s Robert L. Robinson Outstanding Contribution to Psychiatry, 1991

FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES & ORGANIZATIONS

Black Public Media Artist-in-Residence

Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellow

Peekskill Film Festival, Co-Programmer and Co-Organizer

Tribeca All Access Fellow