Sam Pollard

Samuel D Pollard born 20 April 1945 Harlem is an American documentary director producer and editor His films have garnered numerous awards such as Peabodys Emmys and an Academy Award nomination In 2020 the International Documentary Association gave him a career achievement award Spike Lee whose films Pollard has edited and produced described him as being a master filmmaker Henry Louis Gates Jr characterizes his work in this way When I think about his documentaries they add up to a corpus a way of telling AfricanAmerican history in its various dimensions