WHITNEY DOW

Whitney Dow is an award-winning 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: Two Towns of Jasper, I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, Unfinished Country; and When the Drum is Beating. His producer credits include: Freedom Summer; Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America , The Undocumented, Toots and Among the Believers. His work has been exhibited at dozens of international film festivals and institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Smithsonian Institution among other. Dow’s current focus is on the Whiteness Project, a story-based interactive media and research project he is producing in collaboration with PBS's POV and Columbia University's INCITE Institute, and Veterans Coming Home, a digital initiative by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Dow teaches visual and interactive storytelling at Columbia University. He is a sought after lecturer on race, interactive storytelling, and documentary filmmaking.