Sam Pollard’s professional accomplishments as a feature film and video editor, documentary producer, and director span almost thirty years.

His first assignment as a documentary producer came in 1989 on Henry Hampton’s series Eyes On The Prize II. For one of his episodes in this series, he received an Emmy.

Eight years later, as a Co-Executive Producer/Producer of Hampton’s last documentary series I’ll Make Me A World, Sam received The George Peabody Award.

Between 1990 and 2000, he edited a number of Spike Lee’s films: Mo’ Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Girl 6, Clockers and Bamboozled. Sam and Spike Lee also co-produced a couple of documentary productions for the small and big screen: Spike Lee Presents Mike Tyson, a biographical sketch for HBO for which Sam received an Emmy, and 4 Little Girls, a feature-length documentary about the 1965 Birmingham church bombings, which was nominated for an Academy Award.

Sam Pollard is currently a Professor in Film Studies at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Sam Pollard is here courtesy of the Maurits Binger Institute, Sundance Institute, SABC1 and the National Film and Video Foundation [NFVF].