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Janaury 21, 2004
Visiting Filmmaker: Orlando Bagwell
Presenting his new film Citizen King,
5:30 p.m., Ward Circle Building, Room 1
Orlando Bagwell is the founder
and president of ROJA
Productions. A veteran documentary filmmaker, Bagwell was the
executive producer of the six-hour documentary series Africans in
America. As executive vice-president for Blackside, Inc., he supervised
documentary film projects, including the production of the national
PBS series The Great Depression and Malcolm X: Make
it Plain, which he also produced and directed. In addition,
Bagwell produced two films for Blackside's internationally celebrated
Eyes on the Prize, "Mississippi: Is This America?"
and "Ain't Scared of Your Jails." Each was awarded the
Columbia School of Journalism's Alfred E. duPont Award and the Peabody
Award.
Creator of the Civil Rights Video Wall,
a permanent exhibit for the Simon
Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance, Bagwell also produced
and directed a multi-channel video installation "In Search
of Sacred Music" based on the work of renowned musicologist
and historian Bernice Johnson Reagan for the Smithsonian Institution.
Bagwell, whose career focus has been
on America's struggle to reconcile its promise with its contradictions,
has earned numerous additional credits and awards as a cinematographer,
editor, director and producer on many documentary and dramatic films.
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