Whitney Dow
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Tribeca All Access® 2009
About
Whitney Dow is a filmmaker whose credits include Two Towns of Jasper, I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, Unfinished Country, When the Drum is Beating, as a director, and Freedom Summer, The Undocumented, Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America, Toots and Among the Believers, as a producer. In addition to screening at numerous international film festivals and being broadcast on television networks around the world, Dow’s work has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Smithsonian Institution. He is the recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont Award, Anthony Radziwill Documentary Achievement Award, and the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award as well as many film festival honors. He teaches filmmaking and interactive storytelling at Hunter College in NYC.
The Whiteness Project
The Whiteness Project is a multi-platform investigation into the role that whiteness and privilege play in American society, designed to drive a new and unique strand of dialog in the ongoing national conversation on race.
Resolution 07-609: The Rule of Law
A community is torn apart when legislation to curtail immigration deems certain members unwanted, asking the greater questions of who belongs and who has that right to decide.