Jamila Wignot is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her body of work includes The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, which won Peabody, Emmy, and NAACP awards; Town Hall a feature-length co-production with ITVS about the Tea Party movement; and for American Experience the Peabody Award-winning, Triangle Fire and Emmy-nominated Walt Whitman.
Films
Ailey
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(2021)
An immersive portrait of dance pioneer Alvin Ailey, told through his own words and a new dance inspired by his life.
Town Hall
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(2013)
A portrait of two Tea Party members during the Obama era, Town Hall is a time capsule of the burgeoning 21st century right-wing movement.
