Selected Film + Television Credits
RIKERS: AN AMERICAN JAIL (PBS, 2017)
RIKERS: AN AMERICAN JAIL, a riveting award-winning documentary from Bill Moyers, brings you face to face with men and women who have endured incarceration at Rikers Island. Their stories, told direct to camera, vividly describe the cruel arc of the Rikers experience—from the shock of entry, to the extortion and control exercised by other inmates, the oppressive interaction with corrections officers, the beatings and stabbings, the torture of solitary confinement and the many challenges of returning to the outside world. Executive Producer: Bill Moyers, Director + Producers: Marc Levin + Mark Benjamin
Credit: Field Producer
PBS Network
SECOND COMING? (BET, 2012)
SECOND COMING? WILL BLACK AMERICA DECIDE 2012. For the first time in American History an African American is running for re-election as President of the United States. What does this mean for the African American community? What are the critical issues, the expectations and frustrations, the deepest hopes and fears? Will the Obama Campaign and its surrogates, especially from the worlds of popular culture and the Black Church, be able to reactivate the fervor that helped him win in 2008? Or will this base fail to turn out in sufficient numbers and fall short of what the President needs in what looks to be a very tight race? This Two hour BET Documentary follows behind-the-scenes efforts to mobilize the vote and the ongoing debate on progress in the black community. Executive Producer: Marc Levin and Sam Pollard, Director + Producer: Marc Levin
Credit: Field Producer
BET and Brick TV
Matters of Race, episode 3, We're Still Here (PBS, 2003)
“We’re Still Here” is a four-part docuseries that focuses on two communities often overlooked in discussions about race: Native Americans and Native Hawaiians. Because of their history, both groups have signed treaties with the US government that guarantee their rights to their land and culture even though members of these groups are US citizens. On the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, three generations of Lakotas consider the ways their past affects the present and shapes their future. On the islands of Hawaii, Native Hawaiians reflect on a series of lawsuits that have challenged federal programs designed to redress past injustices. The stories told in both places raise important questions about the right of individuals and groups to define their own identity and preserve their culture. Like the other films in the series, it also challenges the way we think about the legacies of race and racism. Executive Producer: Orlando Bagwell, Director + Producer: Sindi Gordon
Credit: Associate Producer
PBS Network