Sam Pollard

Sam Pollard is an accomplished feature film and television editor and documentary producer/director whose work spans more than thirty years. He was the producer of the series Eyes On The Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads, and I’ll Make Me A World: Stories of African-American Artists and Community, which received The George Peabody Award. Together with Spike Lee, Mr. Pollard co-produced Four Little Girls, about the 1963 Birmingham church bombings, which was nominated for an Academy Award, and When The Levees Broke, which received a Peabody and three Emmy Awards. Mr. Pollard has produced/directed feature-length documentaries, including: Slavery By Another Name (PBS), August Wilson: The Ground On Which I Stand (PBS/American Masters), the critically-acclaimed MLK/FBI (2020); Black Art: In the Absence of Light (2021), Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (2022). He won the Peabody Career Achievement Award, for ‘individuals whose work and commitment to broadcasting and digital media have left an indelible mark on the field and in American culture.’