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Whiteness Project
Whiteness Project: Inside the White/Caucasian Box is a 2014 interactive documentary investigating how Americans who identify as “white” experience their ethnicity. Created by documentary filmmaker Whitney Dow and produced in association witAmerican Documentary , POV the project plans to conduct 1,000 interviews with white people from all socioeconomic backgrounds and localities in which they are questioned about “their relationship to, and their understanding of their own whiteness.” "Whiteness Project: Inside the White/Caucasian Box" is the first installment of a proposed larger project. It is a collection of 21 interviews filmed in Buffalo, NY in July 2014. A statistic at the end of each interview introduces verified information that reveals how participants’ perception lines up with relevant demographic information, research and data. The latest installment, "Intersection of I", is a collection of 23 interviews filmed in Dallas, Texas in July 2015 and released in Ap ...
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Whitney Dow
Whitney Dow, born in 1961, is a documentary filmmaker, producer, and director. He is best known for Two Towns of Jasper' (co-directed by Marco Williams), a film about the murder of a black man committed by three white men in Jasper, Texas, which received a George Foster Peabody Award and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. ''Two Towns of Jasper'' was broadcast on the PBS documentary series POV in 2003. The film and the directors were featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and Nightline. The film was the catalyst for a live town hall meeting, "America in Black and White," anchored by Ted Koppel. In 2014, Dow launched Whiteness Project with POV. ''Whiteness Project'' is an online "interactive investigation" into the experiences of white Americans. The interactive project received national attention and coverage from accredited news sources like NPR, New York and CBS. The first installment, "Inside the White/Caucasian Box," is a collection of 21 interviews filmed in ...
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Marco Williams
Marco Williams is a documentary filmmaker and professor of film production at Northwestern University. His films have received several awards, including the Gotham Documentary Achievement Award for Two Towns of Jasper'' and he has been nominated three times for the Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize. Banished' (2007), directed and produced by Williams, tells the story of three American communities where 100 years ago white residents forced thousands of black families to flee their homes. The film documents black descendants as they return to confront their shocking histories. The film was awarded the Knight Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Features at the Miami International Film Festival and the Full Frame Documentary Festival Spectrum Award. Williams' film Freedom Summer' (2006), won a primetime Emmy Award for the series: ''Ten Days that Unexpectedly Changed America''. Williams' film Two Towns of Jasper' (co-directed bWhitney Dow received the 2004 George Foster Peabody ...
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2014 Films
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American Documentary Films
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Films About Race And Ethnicity
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ...
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