Birth of a Movement

2017, Feature Documentary

Role - Associate Producer, Archival Researcher, Sound Recordist

The story of William Monroe Trotter, the nearly forgotten editor of a Boston black newspaper who helped launch a nationwide movement in 1915 to ban Hollywood’s first blockbuster movie, the later controversial The Birth of a Nation.

Directed/Produced by Bestor Cram and Susan Gray, Produced by Matthew McLean

Premiered on Independent Lens/ITVS

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