Stanley Nelson
Producer/Director/Screenwriter

The Emmy Award-winning producer and director of The Murder of Emmett Till, Nelson received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2002. In addition to A PLACE OF OUR OWN, three of his other films have been selected for competition at the Sundance Film Festival: The Murder of Emmett Till was selected for screening at Sundance 2003, winning a Special Jury Award; Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind was a 2001 Sundance selection; The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords garnered the 1999 Sundance Freedom of Expression award as well as a coveted duPont-Columbia Silver Baton, Best Documentary at the San Francisco Film Festival and an Emmy nomination for Best Historical Program. With his wife, Marcia Smith, Nelson is co-founder of Firelight Media, a New York City-based independent non-profit production company dedicated to telling stories of people, places, cultures and issues that are underrepresented in the mainstream media.

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