Jamila Wignot

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker & Director

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Jamila Wignot Biography

Jamila Wignot is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her body of work includes the Emmy-nominated "Makers: Women in Business;" "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross," hosted by Henry Louis Gates, which won a Peabody, Emmy, and NAACP awards; "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".

Wignot’s producing credits include “The Rehnquist Revolution,” the fourth episode of WNET’s series "The Supreme Court," which was an IDA Best Limited Series winner, and "Street Fighting Man," a character-driven documentary about the daily lives of three men surviving in the neighborhoods of post-industrial Detroit.

She also produced Sundance Award-winning director Musa Syeed's new feature film, "A Stray," which tells a coming-of-age story of a Somali-American youth who discovers a sense of himself and his place in the world through an unexpected friendship with a stray dog. Her most recent projects include the documentary "Ailey," and "Riotsville, U.S.A."

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 06/26/2024.

Jamila Wignot Videos

  • Jamila Wignot on AILEY and responsibility of taking on an iconic figure
    Jamila Wignot is no stranger to the world of documentaries. She's an award-winning filmmaker best known for her work on The African Americans and...
  • Ailey Film Q&A with Director Jamila Wignot
    GLAAD's NEON co-creator, Major Nesby sits down with Ailey director Jamila Wignot to discuss the film. Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who...
  • Director Jamila Wignot Discusses 'Ailey' & Her Dream Job
    Director Jamila Wignot chats about her 2021 Sundance Film Festival dance documentary, 'Ailey' and tells us what she would be doing if she weren't a...

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