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She was also a producer/director on Asian Americans, a groundbreaking 5-part series that casts a fresh lens on US history through the stories, contributions and challenges of Asian Americans. Grace Lee recently directed and produced the two-part documentary And She Could Be Next, about women of color transforming American politics, which broadcast on POV in 2020. Nelson and his wife Marcia Smith co-founded Firelight Media. His next documentary, Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre, with Marco Williams, will premiere on the HISTORY Channel on May 30. Nelson’s latest documentary, Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy debuted on Netflix in 2021. In 2019, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool was nominated by the GRAMMYs for Best Music Film. In 2013, Nelson received the National Medal in the Humanities from President Obama. Awards received over the course of his career include a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, five Primetime Emmy Awards, and lifetime achievement awards from the Emmys and IDA. His films combine compelling narratives with rich historical detail to shine new light on the under-explored American past. Stanley Nelson is today’s leading documentarian of the African-American experience. Key projects include the epic five-hour PBS history series Asian Americans, a co-production with WETA and produced by Renee Tajima-Peña Family Pictures, USA by Thomas Allen Harris and a feature film adaptation of Chang-rae Lee’s Coming Home Again directed by Wayne Wang. As a producer, he has worked both in documentaries and independent feature films.

In public television, Donald has supervised the national broadcasts of over 150 award-winning projects. He oversees CAAM’s program areas, and specifically develops and implements CAAM’s national productions and national PBS strategies. Moderator: Donald Young is the Center for Asian American Media’s (CAAM) Director of Programs. Under her leadership, Firelight Media was honored with a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Host: Marcia Smith is president and co-founder of Firelight Media, which produces documentary films, provides artistic and financial support to emerging filmmakers of color, and builds impact campaigns to connect documentaries to audiences and social justice advocates.

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Beyond Resilience is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. The Beyond Resilience Series is sponsored by Open Society Foundations. This panel discussion brings together acclaimed documentary filmmakers and public media executives for a discussion about the necessity of “more than one lens” – how independent filmmakers like Lee, Nelson, and Ruiz have built their careers within public media why public media must center BIPOC filmmakers and stories in order to stay relevant and how BIPOC leadership is shaping the future of public media. These names and their stories were brought to public media audiences by Grace Lee, Stanley Nelson, Cameo George, and Bernardo Ruiz, who combined have directed and produced more than 50 documentary films that reflect the breadth, diversity, and visions of BIPOC communities, movements, and masters. On Thursday, May 20 at 5pm ET, Firelight Media and the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) presented a special edition of the Beyond Resilience Series at CAAMFest 2021 – “More Than One Lens.”Įmmett Till.

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