In addition to the award-winning feature length documentary "Life and Debt" (35mm 90min col) on the impact of the IMF and the World Bank on Jamaica.
Filmography includes the award-winning feature-length documentary "H-2 Worker" (16mm
70 min col) which won both Best Documentary and Best Cinematography at the 1990 Sundance
Film Festival. Produced and directed by Stephanie Black, the film was selected to be
the U.S. representative in the prestigious Semaine de la Critique (Critics Week) section at
Cannes, in addition to winning many festival awards including the John Grierson Award at the
American Film and Video Festival in 1991, Special Gold Jury Award at the Houston Film Festival
1991, among others. The film which documents the plight of the 10,000+ Caribbean men who are
brought to Florida each year under a temporary guestworker ("H-2") visa to harvest sugar
cane for American sugar corporations was also screened in the Library of Congress and the
Florida State Senate. The film was broadcast on national PBS as well as on national television
in twenty countries abroad.
Upon completion of "H-2 Worker" Stephanie Black was hired as the Chief Researcher and Second Unit Director of "Incident at Oglala" (35mm 90 min col) an award-winning feature-length documentary on Leonard Peltier and the activities of the F.B.I. on the Pine Ridge Reservation during the 1970's. Recently Stephanie Black directed eight episodes of "Being Bobby Brown" a reality show broadcast on BRAVO, Summer 2005 produced by B2 Entertainment. Ms. Black is also the Producer/Director of "AFRICA UNITE" (DVCam 86min col) a documentary on Bob Marleys 60th birthday celebration held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to be released February 2008. For over ten years, Stephanie Black has been producing and directing live-action documentary segments for Children's Television Workshop for Sesame Street. To date, over fifty short segments have been conceived, produced and directed by Ms. Black for Sesame Street. In addition Ms. Black has produced for Nickelodeon's "Playful Parent " spots and U to U" show, CTW's "Big Bag" seen on the Cartoon Network and PBS's "Zoom". Stephanie Black produced and directed a PSA on the problem of lack of equal economic opportunity in the U.S. entitled "More Than Luck" for Direct Impact, a non-profit organization in Athens, Georgia. For over ten years, Stephanie Black has been producing and directing music videos and EPK's for such artists as Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, Buju Banton, Snow, Anthony B, INOJ, among others. In 1999, Stephanie Black directed and produced a 30-minute documentary on the "Making of Chant Down Babylon" a Bob Marley tribute album produced by Stephen Marley featuring Lauryn Hill, Busta Rhymes, Erykah Badu, among others. Other related work experiences include Adjunct Professor of Documentary Film at the School of Visual Arts 1991-1994 and presently teaches documentary workshops at Y/FVA in NYC.
The documentary combines the talents of four outstanding
cinematographers-Malik Sayeed, Kyle Kibbe, Alex Nepomniaschy and Richard
Lannaman. Malik Sayeed's credits include Spike Lee's "Clockers" "Girl 6"
and "He's Got Game" as well as Hype Williams "Belly" and Ice Cubes "The
Players Club." Kyle Kibbe has shot numerous documentaries including the
award-winning "Bitter Cane" and "Rezistance" and Alex Nepomniaschy's credits
include the award-winning documentary "Beirut: The Last Home Movie."
Richard Lannaman is one of Jamaica's most talented cinematographer's, recent
credits include "Third World Cop."
John Mullen's editing career spans over thirty-five years and includes the award-winning films
"H-2 Worker" directed by Stephanie Black; "Beirut: The Last Home Movie" directed by Jennifer
Fox; "Warriors: The Story of Leonard Peltier" directed by Suzie Baer; and "Rezistance" produced by
Crowing Rooster Productions. Other editing credits include musical documentaries such as
"Headin for Broadway," a theatrical released produced by 20th Century Fox; "Rock World," a
special for NBC; and "Working," a PBS special; and a Time-Life series of television shorts. For
over five years, John was the supervising editor of the Emmy award-winning children's series
"Big Blue Marble."
Jamaica Kincaid has published At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, A Small Place,
Lucy, The Auto Biography of My Mother, My Brother, My Garden, and has edited
My Favorite Plant. All published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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