2. • Award-Winning Producer/Director/Writer
• USA Artist Fellow
• Guggenheim Fellow
• Rockefeller Fellow
• PBS/CPB Fellow
• Sundance Directors Fellow
• Emmy-Nominated Producer/Director
• Festival Award-Winning Documentary Films
• Through A Lens Darkly
• Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela
• E Minha Cara/That’s My Face
• Vintage: Families of Value
• Harvard College
• Whitney Independent Studies Program
4. • First documentary film to explore
how African Americans have
used Photography as a tool for
Social Change
• Inspired by the work of
MacArthur Award winner and
Co-producer, Dr. Deborah Willis
• NAACP Image Award for
Outstanding Documentary Film
• African Movie Academy Award
for Best (Diasporic) Film
5. “…joins documentaries such as Eyes on The Prize
and When the Levees Broke in the slim canon of
intimate, accurate narratives about the black
experience in America.” - News Observer
"A rich and lyrical tapestry that is both personal and
epic in scope.” - Huffington Post
“It’s not often that we see this level of sheer
honesty that, ultimately, is incredibly universal.”
- Shadow and Act
“An exhilarating approach to the history of
representation.” - Senses of Cinema
6. • Launched in 2009
• Uses Family Photographs to
Educate, Entertain and Inspire
• Generates Deep Audience and
Community Engagement
• Creates Inter-Generational and Cross-
Cultural Dialogues
• Connects the Present to History
• Transforms Strangers into Family
7. Since 2009 launch:
• 36 Live Community Events
• 25 Cities
• 8,000+ Audience Participants
• 1,000+ Hours of Video
• 1,100+ Interviews
• 18,000+ Photographs Collected
• 70+ million Media Impressions
o National & Local Coverage
o Social Media Coverage
8.
9. • Film Screenings
• Through A Lens
Darkly
• Photo-Sharing
Sessions
• Grand Finale Event
• Multi-day
• Immersive
10. • One-on-One Sessions
with DDFR Producer
• One Day or Multiple
• Two 3-hour Blocks
• 10am – 1pm
• 3pm – 6pm
• Videographer & Still
Photographer
• Create a narrative
with family
photographs
11. • Group Sessions with
DDFR Producer
• One Day or Multiple
• Two 3-hour Blocks
• 10am – 1pm
• 3pm – 6pm
• Videographers & Still
Photographers
• Create a collective
dialogue with family
photographs
12. • Live Multimedia Show
• Two Hours Long
• Audience
Participation
• Large Screen
Projections
• Live Music
• Intimate
• A Transformative
Experience of
Collective Discovery
17. DIGITAL DIASPORA FAMILY REUNION
EMPATHY & TRANSFORMATION IN ACTION
“DDFR changes you. It makes
you care more.”
“(DDFR focuses on) the kind of
people, the kind of families that
are largely invisible in our
culture, and how family
photographs can counter that
invisibility. That to me is the
most powerful thing about this
project.”
“The images are of families, they
speak to the love and strength
within the families.”
18. “I didn’t know I
needed it until I found
it.”
(DDFR) “is a trigger to
make you think.”
“It’s making the world
a better place.”
19.
20. • Team Building
• Leadership Development
• Institutional Culture Building
• Cross-disciplinary Relations
• Multicultural Team Development
• Diversity & Inclusion Training
• Town/Gown Relationship
Development
• Campus Culture & Community
Development
