Stanley Nelson
Stanley Nelson is a documentary filmmaker and MacArthur Fellow whose films, many of them broadcast on PBS, chronicle African American history. His work includes The Murder of Emmett Till (2003), Freedom Riders (2010), The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019) and Attica, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and won the DGA Award. He received the National Medal in the Humanities in 2013 and a Peabody Award for his body of work in 2016. He co-founded the nonprofit Firelight Media, which supports documentary filmmakers of color, and the production company Firelight Films.
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