Jamila Wignot

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Jamila Wignot
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Jamila Wignot is an award winning American documentary filmmaker and producer from Brooklyn, New York. [1] Wignot has directed Ailey (2021), and co-directed Town Hall (2013) with Sierra Pettengill. In 2024, Wignot directed and produced Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. for HBO.

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Wignot began her career serving as a production coordinator, researcher and director on American Experience for PBS. [2]

In 2013, Wignot co-directed with Sierra Pettengil, Town Hall, a documentary revolving around activists in the Tea Party movement for ITVS. [3] [4] [5] Wignot has additionally directed episodes of Makers: Women Who Make America , [6] [7] Finding Your Roots , [8] and The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross . [9]

In 2021, Wignot directed and produced Ailey which had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and was released in July 2021, by Neon. [10] [11] In 2024, she directed and produced the documentary series Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. for HBO Documentary Films. [12] [13]

She has served as a producer on A Stray directed by Musa Syeed, [14] and Riotsville, U.S.A. directed by Sierra Pettengill. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ "Brooklyn-based filmmaker-director Jamila Wignot puts her magic touch on STAX: SOULSVILLE, USA". WBGO. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
  2. ↑ "Jamila Wignot". Sundance Institute . Retrieved May 12, 2024.
  3. ↑ Lasker, Julia (May 31, 2023). "Jamila Wignot Shows the Good, the Bad, & the Ugly of American Society". FF2 Media. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Town Hall". ITVS . Retrieved May 12, 2024.
  5. ↑ ""Town Hall" and the Tea Party". WYNC . November 11, 2013. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
  6. ↑ "PBS Announces Six New MAKERS Documentaries to Air June through September 2014". PBS . January 21, 2014. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
  7. ↑ Morfoot, Addie (September 25, 2014). "Women on the Move". Documentary.org . Retrieved May 12, 2024.
  8. ↑ Robinson, Jennifer (November 4, 2019). "Finding Your Roots: Black Like Me". PBS. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
  9. ↑ "Race in America: Giving Voice with Sylvia Waters & Jamila Wignot". The Washington Post . August 12, 2021. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
  10. ↑ Debruge, Peter (December 15, 2020). "Sundance Film Festival Lineup Features 38 First-Time Directors, Including Rebecca Hall and Robin Wright". Variety . Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  11. ↑ D'Alessandro, Anthony (January 31, 2021). "NEON Acquires Jamila Wignot's Documentary 'Ailey' – Sundance". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  12. ↑ White, Peter (May 3, 2022). "Stax Records Docuseries Set At HBO From Jamila Wignot & Ezra Edelman". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
  13. ↑ "HBO Original Documentary Series STAX: SOULSVILLE U.S.A. Debuts May 20". Warner Bros. Discovery . May 2, 2024. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
  14. ↑ Gaulppo, Mia (February 3, 2021). "'Ailey' Director Jamila Wignot Signs With CAA". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
  15. ↑ Kilkenny, Katie (April 28, 2022). "Magnolia Pictures Lands North American Rights to Sundance Doc 'Riotsville, USA' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved May 12, 2024.
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