Jamila Wignot

Jamila Wignot⠀is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her body of work includes the Emmy-nominated Makers: Women in Business; The African-Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, which won a Peabody, Emmy, and NAACP award; Town Hall, a feature-length co-production with ITVS about the Tea Party movement; and for the American Experience series, the Peabody Award-winning, Triangle Fire and Emmy-nominated Walt Whitman. Wignot’s producing credits include The Rehnquist Revolution, the fourth episode of WNET’s series The Supreme Court, which was an IDA Best Limited Series winner, and Street Fighting Man.  She produced Sundance Award-winning director Musa Syeed's new feature film, A Stray. She is currently directing a feature documentary about Alvin Ailey.