Jamila Wignot - Documentary Filmmaker

Jamila Wignot, Director/Producer, is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her 2008 film Walt Whitman, produced for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, was nominated for an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking. She also produced The Rehnquist Revolution, the fourth episode for WNET’s series, The Supreme Court, which won a 2007 Cine Golden Eagle Award and a 2008 NYf Silver Medal. The series was the 2007 IDA Limited Series winner. Her most recent film, Triangle Fire, was one of three films to garner the American Experience series a Peabody Award in 2012.