Soul on Soul: The Story of Mary Lou Williams
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2004
Logline
An inspiring docudrama focusing on the life of the remarkable Mary Lou Williams—jazz musician, composer, and arranger.
Carol Bash
Director, Producer
Carol Bash has a solid background in broadcast journalism, independent filmmaking, and historical documentaries. Previously, she was an associate producer for Blackside's upcoming six-part historical documentary PBS series, This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys. Bash served as cinematographer and associate producer for Firelight Media's one-hour PBS documentary, A Place of Our Own. Also, for Firelight Media, she was producer and camera on Take Back the Courts, a short outreach documentary on the rolling back of civil rights legislation, for the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights.
Stanley Nelson
Executive Producer
Stanley Nelson is a 2002 MacArthur Fellow. His most production, A Place of Our Own for the PBS series Independent Lens, premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. His film The Murder of Emmett Till for PBS's American Experience won and Emmy and captured the Special Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. The Black FIlmmakers' Hall of Fame and the Black International Cinema Festival in Berlin named his documentary, Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind, Best Production of the Year. In 1999, his film The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords won a DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, the Sundance Film Festival's Freedom of Expression award, was named Best Documentary at the San Francisco Film Festival, and won an Emmy nomination.