Stanley Nelson Jr.
Stanley Nelson Jr. | |
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Montclair Film Festival | |
Born | Stanley Earl Nelson Jr. June 7, 1951 |
Education | New Lincoln School |
Alma mater | City College of New York (B.F.A. 1976) |
Occupation(s) | Film director, producer |
Awards | MacArthur Fellows Program National Humanities Medal |
Stanley Earl Nelson Jr. (born June 7, 1951) is an American documentary filmmaker and a
Among his notable films are
Early life and education
Nelson was born in New York City on June 7, 1951, to Stanley Nelson Sr. and A'lelia (Ransom) Nelson, and the second of four children.[9] Nelson's mother A'lelia Nelson was the last president of the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company, a famous early black enterprise established in 1906 that produced hair care products and cosmetics for black women.[10][11] A'lelia was also a librarian at City College of New York and was acquisitions supervisor for the Library of Congress.[10] Nelson's father Dr. Stanley Earl Nelson Sr. was a dentist who was a pioneer in reconstructive dentistry and taught at New York University. Dr. Nelson was also an active supporter of the civil rights movement.[12] Nelson's sister Jill Nelson is a prominent African-American journalist and author.[13]
Nelson attended New Lincoln School, a private Manhattan school, from kindergarten through high school. He attended Beloit College in Wisconsin and later transferred to six different colleges including New York University, Morris Brown College, and Hunter College. He graduated from the Leonard Davis Film School at the City College of New York with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1976.[14]
Career
After graduation, Nelson earned an apprenticeship with the documentary filmmaker
Nelson soon found a job at PBS, working as a television producer with
He received a
For the 2003
Nelson's 2004 film A Place of Our Own was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.[23] In 2004, he also won the Educational Video Center's Excellence in Community Service Award.[24]
In 2007, he received an Emmy nomination for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking as a producer of Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple that aired on PBS series The American Experience.[3]
On May 4, 2011, Nelson and his film
Nelson's 2014 documentary Freedom Summer profiled the 1964 civil rights movement activism in Mississippi. It aired on PBS American Experience and won Best Documentary at the Pan-African film festival.
Nelson directed the 2015 documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, the first of what is to be a three-part series of documentaries about African-American history titled America Revisited. He won an Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking as one of the producers of this film in 2016.[3]
He is a member of the
Nelson is Executive Director and co-founder of
Filmography
- Freedom Bags (1990)
- Schools for A New Society (1993)
- Puerto Rico: A Right to Choose (1994)
- The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (1998)
- Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind (2000)
- Running the Campaign for City Council (2002)
- The Murder of Emmett Till (2003)
- A Place of Our Own (2004)
- Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise (2004)
- Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice (2005)
- Faces of Change (2005)
- Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)
- CNN Presents High Stakes (2006)
- We Shall Remain (Part 5) - "Wounded Knee" (2009)
- Immigration Part 1: Battleground Arizona (2009)
- Immigration Part II: Raid in New Bedford (2009)
- Immigration Part III: Guest Workers in the Gulf (2009)
- Arise: the Battle over Affirmative Action (2010)
- Freedom Riders (2010)
- Freedom Summer (2014)
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)
- Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (2017)
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)
- Boss: The Black Experience in Business (2019)
- Vick (2020)
- Attica (2021)
References
- ^ a b c "About the Filmmaker: Stanley Nelson". The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords. PBS. Retrieved 2007-03-08.
- ^ Hale, Mike (2011-05-15). "An Explorer of Black History's Uncharted Terrain". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ Emmys.com. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- Indiewire. 2010-01-22. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- Democracy Now. 2011-05-04. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ "'Freedom Riders' Celebrates Civil Rights Heroes". ABC News. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ "A Place of Our Own". Independent Lens. 2004-02-17. PBS. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ Leydon, Joe (2004-01-18). "Review: 'A Place of Our Own'". Variety. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ Thomson Gale. 2007. Retrieved 2017-09-09 – via Encyclopedia.com.
- ^ a b Martin, Douglas (2001-02-14). "A'Lelia Nelson, 82, President Of a Black Cosmetics Company". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ Nelson, Jill (2002-12-05). "Good Hair Day Company". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- Edgartown, MA. 2016-09-07. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
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- ^ "Stanley Nelson". The History Makers. 2006-04-03. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ Nelson, Jill (1988-02-21). "TWO DOLLARS AND A DREAM". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ "Madam C.J. Walker, Two Dollars and a Dream". Indiana Legends. PBS. WTIU. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ "Stanley Nelson". Communications Hall of Fame. City College Alumni Association. 2010. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ "The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords". Firelight Media. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
- ^ Finn, Robin (2002-10-08). "PUBLIC LIVES; $500,000 Should Buy a Few Body Doubles". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- Macarthur Foundation. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- The Peabody Awards. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ a b "Documentary Filmmaker Stanley Nelson to be 2015 AFI DOCS Guggenheim Symposium Honoree". American Film Institute. 2015-07-06. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ Okoi-Obuli, Wendy (2004-02-10). "The History, Significance & Changing Landscape of an African American Resort Community in Stanley Nelson's 'A Place Of Our Own'". IndieWire. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ "Stanley Nelson". Butler University. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ "Oprah Honors Freedom Riders". The Oprah Winfrey Show. 2011-05-04. Retrieved 2017-09-09.; Meet the Freedom Riders Who Survived a Deadly Attack from the KKK, The Oprah Winfrey Show, OWN. OWN. 2014-12-31. Event occurs at 3:23. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15. Retrieved 2017-09-09 – via YouTube.
- ^ Indiewire. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ "President Obama Awards 2013 National Humanities Medals". National Endowment for the Humanities. 2014-07-22. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ "The Peabody 30 - Complete Winner's List". 3 May 2016. Retrieved February 28, 2020.
- National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. 2016-07-28. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ "Getting Real '16 Marcia Smith". International Documentary Association. 15 June 2016. Retrieved 2017-09-09. Almo, Laura (21 October 2010). "Outreach, Not Out of Reach: Firelight Media Illuminates the Under-Represented". International Documentary Association. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ "Award-Winning Director Stanley Nelson and Firelight Films Launches HBCU Tour with Public Media Stations for 'Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities'". CPB. Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 2017-11-01. Retrieved 2018-02-10.