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The Team
Jacqueline Woodson is a novelist, poet and screenwriter. She is the author of more than thirty books. Her accolades include the National Book
Award, a Macarthur Fellowship, Coretta Scott King Awards, and NAACP Awards among many others.Produced by Erika Dilday
Erika Dilday, a producer, journalist, and media executive, is the executive director of American Documentary Inc. and executive producer of its award-winning
documentary series POV on PBS and American ReFramed on WORLD Channel. Most recently, she was the CEO of Futura Media Group. Prior to Futuro Media,
she was the executive director of Maysles Documentary Center. Erika also held strategic planning and financial management roles at The New York Times,
National Geographic Television, and CBS. She is a graduate of Harvard College, the Columbia School or Journalism, and Columbia Business School. In 2020
she was a Knight Neiman fellow at Harvard University.Produced & Directed by Catherine
Founder and Director of Aubin Pictures, Catherine Gund is an Emmy-nominated and Academy-shortlisted producer, director, writer, and activist. Her media work focuses on strategic and sustainable social transformation, arts and culture, HIV/AIDS and racial, reproductive and environmental justice. Her films have screened around the world in festivals, theaters, museums, and schools; on PBS, HBO, Paramount+, the Discovery Channel, Sundance Channel, Free Speech TV, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. She won the 2023 Gracie Award for Documentary Producer. Her films include: Paint Me a Road Out of Here, Meanwhile, Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison, Primera, Aggie, Chavela, and Born to Fly. She has served on several arts, media, and justice nonprofit boards and has been a creative advisor on numerous documentary films. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. An alumnus of Brown University and the Whitney Independent Study Program, she has four children and lives in NYC.
Soundscape by Meshell Ndegeocello
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Meshell Ndegeocello is a German-born American singer-songwriter, rapper, and bassist. Her Grammy award-winning music incorporates a wide variety of
influences, including funk, soul, jazz, hip hop, reggae and rock. As a prolific multi-instrumentalist and poetic intellectual, Ndegeocello’s music weaves together
sensual sentiments, spinning storytelling and activism into its own (sub)genre of soul. Most recently, Meshell crafted the theme song for Netflix’s “We The
People.”
Edited by M. Trevino
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M. Trevino is an award-winning queer Latinx filmmaker, audio artist, activist and educator based in New York City. He has been making films and audio
productions since 1999, and has collaborated with organizations like the Tribeca Film Institute, Downtown Community Television (DCTV), The Kitchen,
Maysles Documentary Center and City University of New York. His works center on issues pertaining to gender, ethnography, ritual, and memory, and has been
presented in major cities in the United States including New York, San Francisco, Houston and Detroit. As a filmmaker and film educator, he has been closely
involved with immigrant and Latinx underserved communities.
Executive producers:
Adam & Melony Lewis
Jack Shear
Mickalene Thomas
Co-Executive Producers:
Ann & Graham Gund
Cinematographers:
Jia Li
Emerson Mahoney
Catherine Gund
Sound Recordists:
Errol Basdeo
Samantha Cohen
Assistant Editing:
Flavia Romani
Additional Music By:
Chris Bruce
Jebin Bruni
Abe Rounds
In Association With:
Just Films/Ford Foundation
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University.
Meshell Ndegeocello is a German-born American singer-songwriter, rapper, and bassist. Her Grammy award-winning music incorporates a wide variety of
influences, including funk, soul, jazz, hip hop, reggae and rock. As a prolific multi-instrumentalist and poetic intellectual, Ndegeocello’s music weaves together
sensual sentiments, spinning storytelling and activism into its own (sub)genre of soul. Most recently, Meshell crafted the theme song for Netflix’s “We The
People.”Edited by M. Trevino
M. Trevino is an award-winning queer Latinx filmmaker, audio artist, activist and educator based in New York City. He has been making films and audio
productions since 1999, and has collaborated with organizations like the Tribeca Film Institute, Downtown Community Television (DCTV), The Kitchen,
Maysles Documentary Center and City University of New York. His works center on issues pertaining to gender, ethnography, ritual, and memory, and has been
presented in major cities in the United States including New York, San Francisco, Houston and Detroit. As a filmmaker and film educator, he has been closely
involved with immigrant and Latinx underserved communities.
Executive producers:
Adam & Melony Lewis
Jack Shear
Mickalene Thomas
Co-Executive Producers:
Ann & Graham Gund
Cinematographers:
Jia Li
Emerson Mahoney
Catherine Gund
Sound Recordists:
Errol Basdeo
Samantha Cohen
Assistant Editing:
Flavia Romani
Additional Music By:
Chris Bruce
Jebin Bruni
Abe Rounds
In Association With:
Just Films/Ford Foundation
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University.