Ann Bennett

Ann Bennett is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody-nominated documentary filmmaker, multimedia producer and nonfiction storyteller who has devoted her career to telling diverse stories through film, television, interactive projects, installations, and live events. She produced the NAACP Image Award–winning documentary Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People, as well as the multiplatform community engagement initiative Digital Diaspora Family Reunion. Ann is currently producer on the feature-length documentary RAZING LIBERTY SQUARE about Climate Gentrification in Miami, Florida. Bennett’s past film credits include Citizen King and Fisk Jubilee Singers for the PBS series American Experience, Hymn for Alvin Ailey for Dance in America, Detroit 48202: Conversations Along A Postal Route for the World Channel, and the award-winning PBS miniseries Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery. Bennett holds a master’s degree from the Columbia Journalism School and graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies. She has won fellowships with Sundance Creative Producing Lab, Impact Partners, Laundromat Project Create Change, Culture Push's Black Utopian Practice, Jackson Wild Multicultural Alliance Fellowship and the DOC NYC’s Documentary New Leaders program. Bennett’s multi platform projects explore the nexus of history, culture, disability and technology within multicultural communities.