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Name
  
Louis Massiah

Role
  
Documentary Filmmaker

Awards
  
MacArthur Fellowship


Louis Massiah Filmmaker Louis Massiah The Sanctuary for Independent Media


Movies
  
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices

Education
  
Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Similar
  
Toni Cade Bambara, Thulani Davis, Amiri Baraka, Wesley Brown

Film + Social Change: Louis Massiah & John L. Jackson Jr. on Toni Cade Bambara (CEE at UPENN)


Louis J. Massiah is an American documentary filmmaker.

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He graduated from Cornell University with a B.A., and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an M.S. in documentary filmmaking.

He has been an artist-in-residence and on faculty at City College of New York, Princeton University, Ithaca College, the University of Pennsylvania, American University, Haverford College, and most recently at Swarthmore College and Temple University.

He is the founder and executive director of the Scribe Video Center, a media arts center providing educational workshops for community groups and emerging independent media makers.

Awards

  • 1996 MacArthur Fellows Program
  • 1990, 1996 Tribeca Film Institute Fellow
  • 2009 Fleisher Founder's Award
  • Filmography

  • The Bombing of Osage Avenue (producer/director), 1986
  • Power! (co-producer/writer/director), 1990
  • A Nation of Law? (co-producer/writer/director), 1990
  • W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices, 1996
  • Louise Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words, 1996. A short film about activist Louise Thompson Patterson
  • References

    Louis Massiah Wikipedia


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