Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin

Meet the Cast:

Bennett Singer, a New York-based filmmaker and book editor, has served as producer/director or associate producer of a number of acclaimed documentary series, including the Emmy-, Peabody-, and duPont-Columbia-winning Eyes On The Prize II, With God On Our Side, and The Question of Equality. He served for eight years as executive editor of TIME Magazine's education program. Singer is the editor of 42 Up, the companion book to Michael Apted's famed documentary series; editor of the award-winning Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian; and co-author of The Student Body, a novel of suspense published by Random House. He is currently directing a feature-length documentary on America's dysfunctional voting system.

Nancy D. Kates, Producer-Director

Nancy D. Kates is a filmmaker and writer based in Berkeley, California. She is a graduate of Stanford University's documentary film and television program, where she created a number of short films; her M.A. thesis film, Their Own Vietnam, received the 1995 Student Academy Award in...

Mridu Chandra, Co-Producer

Mridu Chandra has been producing social-issue documentaries and narrative films for the past decade. She recently completed a teaching residency in Lahore, where she helped to establish Pakistan's first university film program at Beaconhouse National University. She currently teaches film and video...

Sam Pollard, Executive Producer

Sam Pollard's documentary and feature film accomplishments span 30 years. He was a producer/director for Blackside, Inc.'s Eyes On The Prize II, for which he won an Emmy Award, and co-executive producer for Blackside's six-part series I'll Make Me a World: A Century of African American...

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