Whitney Dow
Whitney Dow is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and educator. He has been producing and directing films focused on race and identity for almost two decades and is a partner in Two Tone Productions. His directorial credits include documentaries broadcast on public television: Two Towns of Jasper (P.O.V); I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, Unfinished Country (Wide Angle); and When the Drum is Beating (Independent Lens). His producer credits include: Freedom Summer (History Channel); Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America (Independent Lens), The Undocumented (Independent Lens), Toots (Menemsha Films/Indiepix) and Among the Believers.
His films have premiered at festivals ranging from Sundance to Tribeca and been broadcast on networks around the world. His work has been recognized with: the George Foster Peabody Award; Alfred I. duPont Award; Anthony Radziwill Documentary Achievement Award; and the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award as well as many film festival honors. Dow has been a featured guest on numerous national television and radio shows including NPR’s All Things Considered, CBS This Morning, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Nightline and as a regularly appearing commentator on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry Show. He has been interviewed or his work featured in Colorlines, Mic, Daily Dot, The Root, Gawker, The Grio, The Guardian, DailyMail, The Washington Times, Vice, BuzzFeed, Slate, and BBC World Service.
Dow’s current focus is on the Whiteness Project, a story-based interactive media and research project he is producing in collaboration with American Documentary | POV. The project, examines how Americans who identify as white or, partially white, process their racial identity, and pairs it with with secondary quantitative data - attitudinal, socioeconomic and genomic. Dow is also currently serving as Story Director for the multi-platform Public Media project, Veterans Coming Home (VCH), a digital initiative by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Dow teaches interactive storytelling in the Integrated Media Arts (IMA) MFA program at CUNY Hunter College and has a Research Scholar appointment at Columbia University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE). He is a sought after lecturer on race, interactive storytelling, and documentary filmmaking.
His films have premiered at festivals ranging from Sundance to Tribeca and been broadcast on networks around the world. His work has been recognized with: the George Foster Peabody Award; Alfred I. duPont Award; Anthony Radziwill Documentary Achievement Award; and the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award as well as many film festival honors. Dow has been a featured guest on numerous national television and radio shows including NPR’s All Things Considered, CBS This Morning, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Nightline and as a regularly appearing commentator on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry Show. He has been interviewed or his work featured in Colorlines, Mic, Daily Dot, The Root, Gawker, The Grio, The Guardian, DailyMail, The Washington Times, Vice, BuzzFeed, Slate, and BBC World Service.
Dow’s current focus is on the Whiteness Project, a story-based interactive media and research project he is producing in collaboration with American Documentary | POV. The project, examines how Americans who identify as white or, partially white, process their racial identity, and pairs it with with secondary quantitative data - attitudinal, socioeconomic and genomic. Dow is also currently serving as Story Director for the multi-platform Public Media project, Veterans Coming Home (VCH), a digital initiative by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Dow teaches interactive storytelling in the Integrated Media Arts (IMA) MFA program at CUNY Hunter College and has a Research Scholar appointment at Columbia University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE). He is a sought after lecturer on race, interactive storytelling, and documentary filmmaking.
