Jamila Wignot
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Jamila Wignot is an 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 the Peabody Award[2] winning documentary series Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. for HBO.
Wignot began her career serving as a production coordinator, researcher and director on American Experience for PBS.[3]
In 2013, Wignot co-directed with Sierra Pettengil, Town Hall, a documentary revolving around activists in the Tea Party movement for ITVS.[4][5][6] Wignot has additionally directed episodes of Makers: Women Who Make America,[7][8] Finding Your Roots,[9] and The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.[10]
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.[11][12] Ailey is a documentary about a choreographer, and it allows Wignot to incorporate dance into film.[13] In 2024, she directed and produced the documentary series Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. for HBO Documentary Films, which was nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series category in the 76th Emmy Awards.[14][15][16]
She has served as a producer on A Stray directed by Musa Syeed,[17] and Riotsville, U.S.A. directed by Sierra Pettengill.[18]
References
- ↑ "Brooklyn-based filmmaker-director Jamila Wignot puts her magic touch on STAX: SOULSVILLE, USA". WBGO. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
- ↑ "STAX: Soulsville U.S.A." The Peabody Awards. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
- ↑ "Jamila Wignot". Sundance Institute. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
- ↑ Lasker, Julia (May 31, 2023). "Jamila Wignot Shows the Good, the Bad, & the Ugly of American Society". FF2 Media. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
- ↑ "Town Hall". ITVS. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
- ↑ ""Town Hall" and the Tea Party". WYNC. November 11, 2013. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
- ↑ "PBS Announces Six New MAKERS Documentaries to Air June through September 2014". PBS. January 21, 2014. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
- ↑ Morfoot, Addie (September 25, 2014). "Women on the Move". Documentary.org. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
- ↑ Robinson, Jennifer (November 4, 2019). "Finding Your Roots: Black Like Me". PBS. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
- ↑ "Race in America: Giving Voice with Sylvia Waters & Jamila Wignot". The Washington Post. August 12, 2021. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ D'Alessandro, Anthony (January 31, 2021). "NEON Acquires Jamila Wignot's Documentary 'Ailey' – Sundance". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
- ↑ Porter, Juan (July 28, 2021). "Alvin Ailey Documentary: A Humanistic Portrait of a Godlike Man".
- ↑ White, Peter (May 3, 2022). "Stax Records Docuseries Set At HBO From Jamila Wignot & Ezra Edelman". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
- ↑ "HBO Original Documentary Series STAX: SOULSVILLE U.S.A. Debuts May 20". Warner Bros. Discovery. May 2, 2024. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
- ↑ "Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Series 2024 - Nominees & Winners Emmy Awards". Television Academy. Retrieved 2026-03-24.
- ↑ Gaulppo, Mia (February 3, 2021). "'Ailey' Director Jamila Wignot Signs With CAA". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
- ↑ Kilkenny, Katie (April 28, 2022). "Magnolia Pictures Lands North American Rights to Sundance Doc 'Riotsville, USA' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 12, 2024.