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Louis Massiah
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Independent Filmmaker and Producer, Executive Director of Scribe Media |
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Advisory Board Member |
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Louis Massiah is an independent documentary filmmaker whose films often explore historical and political subjects. His award winning works, which have been seen widely on public television and at film festivals internationally, include W.E.B. Du Bois - A Biography in Four Voices (producer/director), a documentary on the life of the great scholar and political activist and the recently completed Louise Alone Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words (producer/director), an oral history portrait of the political activist and Harlem Renaissance cultural worker. Currently he is executive producer of Haytian Stories (producer/director; in-production), exploring the history of the 200 year relationship between the United States and Haiti.
He is the producer/director of The Bombing of Osage Avenue (producer/director; 1986, 58 minutes), on the 1985 Philadelphia police bombing on the MOVE organization. In 1990, Massiah produced, directed and wrote Power!(co-producer/writer/director) and A Nation of Law? (co-producer/writer/director), two films for the landmark PBS series Eyes on the Prize II. His other works for public television include: Cecil B. Moore (producer/director) an examination of the political leader and the Civil Rights struggle in Philadelphia; Trash! (producer/director), an encyclopedic look at trash as aspect of American culture; My Own Boss (producer/director), exploring worker-owned and self-managed industries; and Digging Dinosaurs (producer/director), a profile of paleontologist, Jack Horner. His film, A is for Anarchist, B is for Brown (producer/director), a documentary on Philadelphia activists, premiered on public television station WYBE’s Philadelphia Stories.
Other production duties include senior creative consultant to Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project, broadcast in 2000-2001 on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, as well as other freelance reports for the MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour. Mr. Massiah produced the live "MOVE Commission Hearings" for public television station WHYY in Philadelphia. This Emmy award winning telecast provided 14 days/144 hours of live testimony and analysis into major news event. Massiah has worked in the programming department at WNET and has developed programs for WGBH’s American Experience.
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