Our next conversation in the ongoing Frame By Frame series is with acclaimed filmmaker Laurens Grant, whose decades-long career includes directing the 2012 Emmy-winning documentary on Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens, and producing the Emmy and Peabody award-winning "Freedom Riders" in 2010.
Here, Laurens discusses how she found her way into making documentary films, her cinematic influences, and the impact of her work.
On her beginnings in documentary:
I never planned on being a documentary filmmaker. I received a bachelor’s degree in journalism and my lifelong dream was to be a foreign correspondent. I wanted to be the next Langston …
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