NYWIFT Talks with Sheila Nevins, 10/27
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In this week’s NYWIFT Talks, join award-winning Executive Producer Sheila Nevins for a Zoom conversation. We’ll focus on Sheila’s career, producing for MTV, and what the future of documentary looks like post COVID-19.
This conversation will be moderated by NYWIFT Board Member, Leslie Fields-Cruz.
Date: Tuesday, October 27
Time: 12:30 PM EST
Sheila Nevins is currently serving as an Executive Producer at MTV Networks. She is the former President of HBO Documentary Films and Family Programming for Home Box Office. As an Executive Producer or Producer, she has received 32 Primetime Emmy® Awards, 35 News and Documentary Emmys® and 42 George Foster Peabody Awards. In her career to date she has been responsible for Programming that has won 26 Academy Awards®. She is the New York Times bestselling author of You Don’t Look Your Age… and Other Fairy Tales. Sheila holds a BA from Barnard College and an MFA from Yale University School of Drama in Directing.
Leslie Fields-Cruz (moderator), Executive Director of Black Public Media (BPM), started at BPM, then known as the National Black Programming Consortium, in 2001 managing grant making activities that supported the production and development of documentary programs for PBS. She was promoted to director of programming in 2005 and oversaw the distribution of funded programs to public television. Frustrated with the lack of content that spoke to the diversity of experiences within the African diaspora, Leslie curated the first season of BPM’s award-winning series AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange. Now in its 11th season AfroPoP is still the only national public television series focused solely on stories about the global Black experience. In the fall of 2014, Leslie became BPM’s third executive director. Though she keeps the pulse on the development of program content and its distribution across public media platforms, she is focused on growing BPM’s resources to enable it to support more stories about the Black experience. Leslie serves on the board of directors for NYWIFT and New Era Creative Space (NECS), a local community arts center in Peekskill, NY.