The Whiteness Project
TFI Suppport
TFI New Media Fund 2015
Logline
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.
Whitney Dow
Director, Producer
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.
John Kudos
Creative Director
Kudos is a creative director, strategist, and systems architect. He is the co-founder and principal of Studio Kudos, a Design Collaboratory™ with interdisciplinary focus on branding, editorial, interaction, motion, signage, and exhibition design. John works with clients in non-profit, education, cultural, and publishing fields in New York, UK, Japan, and Indonesia (his hometown). He has directed and produced for MoMA, Cornell University, MIT Media Lab, Sotheby's, Guggenheim, Metropolis Magazine, Designers & Books, 1100 Architect, DesigNYC, EG Conference, Rutgers University, and Shinkenchiku-sha. His work has been recognized by the ADC, The Webby, D&AD, SPD, TDC, AIGA, NY Book Show and featured in publications like Graphis, Print, I.D., Communication Arts, STEP Inside Design, and Black Book AR100.