WHITNEY DOW

Whitney Dow is an award-winning filmmaker and educator. He has been producing and directing films that explore culture and identity for almost two decades. His directorial credits include: Two Towns of Jasper, I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, Unfinished Country, When the Drum is Beating and The Big Payback. His producer credits include: Freedom Summer; Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America, The Undocumented, Toots, Among the Believers and After the Bite. His work has been exhibited at dozens of international film festivals and institutions such as Sundance, Tribeca, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution, and been recognized with a Peabody Award, duPont Award, Emmy nomination, and numerous film festival honors. He teaches narrative theory at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Preservation and Planning.