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William Garfield Greaves (October 8, 1926 – August 25, 2014) was an American documentary filmmaker and a pioneer of film-making. After trying his hand at acting, he became a filmmaker who produced more than two hundred documentary films, and wrote and directed more than half of these.
Learn about the life and work of William Greaves, a pioneer of African American cinema who created seventy-nine films over fifty-two years. Explore his biography, filmography, reviews, news, and how to buy or stream his films.
Learn about the life and work of William Greaves, a pioneering African American documentary filmmaker who captured the civil rights movement and African history. Explore his diverse and award-winning films, from The Fight to Symbiopsychotaxiplasm.
Aug 27, 2014 · William Greaves, a producer and director who helped bring an African-American perspective to mainstream America as a host of the groundbreaking television news program “Black Journal” and as a...
Apr 17, 2003 · Filmmaker William Greaves was born in New York City to parents from Jamaica and Barbados. Growing up in Harlem, Greaves attended Stuyvesant High School, and after graduating in 1944, attended the City College of New York. Greaves spent 1948 studying under German-born avant-garde filmmaker Hans Richter.
Aug 27, 2014 · William Greaves, the Emmy-award winning producer and co-host of the groundbreaking television show "Black Journal" and a prolific filmmaker whose subjects ranged from...
Feb 9, 2022 · In this Q&A, Scott MacDonald, coeditor of William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission lays bare Greaves’s journey from actor to filmmaker to preserver of the African-American experience. Q: I see that the new William Greaves book has a dossier on the Symbiopsychotaxiplasm films. Strange title!
