Hello, and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast! I am Valerie Complex, an associate editor and film writer at Deadline. Today I’m chatting with award-winning filmmaker and advertising agency veteran Deborah Riley Draper.
Draper is getting set to premiere her newest project, James Brown: Say It Loud, on Monday on A&E Network. She directed and co-wrote the four-part docuseries, which examines Brown’s legacy through exclusive interviews, never-before-seen footage and his beloved music catalog.
It is executive produced by Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Oscar winner Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. Draper previously directed the two-part series The Legacy of Black Wall Street for OWN/Discovery+, which received an NAACP Image Awards nomination for Outstanding Breakthrough Creative (Television).
In 2017, she received an NAACP Image Award nomination for her documentary Olympic Pride, American Prejudice, which she also directed, produced and wrote, telling the untold story of the 18 African Americans who defied Hitler and Jim Crow in 1936.
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