Doc Powerhouse Sam Pollard To Receive Black Public Media’s Trailblazer Award: “Time To Give Him The Flowers He Deserves”
deadline.comFilmmaker Sam Pollard, one of the most prolific and important forces in contemporary documentary, will be honored by Black Public Media at its upcoming PitchBlack Awards in New York.
Pollard — who directed or co-directed four films and docuseries this year alone, including The League and Bill Russell: Legend — will receive the BPM Trailblazer Award in a ceremony on April 25.
The event is set to take place at the Stanley H. Kantor Penthouse of Manhattan’s Lincoln Center, capping the latest edition of BPM’s PitchBLACK Forum, described as “the largest pitch competition of its kind in the United States for independent filmmakers and creative technologists who create Black content.” “A multiple Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning producer-director-editor, Pollard is known for his work on a plethora of important works including: Eyes On The Prize, Maynard, MLK/FBI, Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, and Mr.
SOUL!,” a release noted. “He also has served as an editor on Spike Lee’s Clockers; Mo’ Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Girl 6, Bamboozled, and Four Little Girls.” The release also cited some of Pollard’s most recent work: “Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (PBS), about the legendary jazz drummer and composer, which just won a 2023 International Documentary Association (IDA) Best Music Documentary Award; and South to Black Power (HBO), about journalist and author Charles M.
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