Jamila Wignot
Director

Jamila Wignot is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her body of work includes, The African Americans, Many Rivers To Cross, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, which won a Peabody, Emmy, and NAACP award; Town Hall a feature-length co-production with ITVS about the Tea Party movement; and for American Experience the Peabody Award-winning, Triangle Fire and Emmy-Nominated Walt Whitman. Her most recent directorial work told the story of the pioneering women who have shaped American business for the landmark PBS women’s series, Makers.