https://www.hazelgurlandpooler.com/projects daily 1.0 2025-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5be08ed5365f02ec4ba3a9bd/1541456913657-XBTSUA1YR8EKCPL53HW6/MEH-courier+title+card.png Projects - Producer Directed and produced a five-part, first-person, docu-series that reveals the lives of low-income New Yorkers working in the gig economy to make ends meet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5be08ed5365f02ec4ba3a9bd/1542043717822-4FBS8TNF7NCBZEEN1OIT/Rivers-Skip+jacket.png Projects - Co-Producer Co-Produced two hours of the six-hour series hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. which explores five centuries of historic events ending with Obama’s presidency over a nation deeply divided by race. Won Emmy, Peabody, NAACP Image, and Alfred I. duPont-Columbia awards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5be08ed5365f02ec4ba3a9bd/1541716606717-LMOH3PI6SBZNBFPZ7F23/FYR+title+card.png Projects - Director/Producer/Series Story Producer Directed and Produced 10 episodes of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS series, which traces the ancestry and DNA of influential people from around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5be08ed5365f02ec4ba3a9bd/1541456691835-4P6UG55W8AAPH2EW6JNI/ROOTS-title+card.png Projects - Producer Produced this one-hour documentary special on the history of American slavery. Created in connection with the mini-series re-boot of Alex Haley’s ROOTS, and simulcast on A&E, HISTORY, and Lifetime. Screened at Bushwick Film Festival 2016. Nominated for NAACP Image Award (Outstanding Documentary - Television). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5be08ed5365f02ec4ba3a9bd/1707406819971-BNJA5Z1YKJ4WAEWDDQ0G/image-asset.jpeg Projects - For more info, go to www.StormingCaesarsPalace.com This feature-length documentary uplifts the story of 1970s Las Vegas activist Ruby Duncan and a band of ordinary mothers who launched one of the most extraordinary, yet forgotten, Black feminist anti-poverty movements in U.S. history, offering a blueprint today for an equitable future. Based on the book “Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War On Poverty” by Annelise Orleck, the film challenges the pernicious lie of the “Welfare Queen” and highlights the visionary leadership of low-income grassroots organizers whose courage, tenacity, and dreams could not be quashed, against all odds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5be08ed5365f02ec4ba3a9bd/1738105039057-JOJBL566OC3SJYA4JQ7W/Max+The+Fall+of+Diddy.png Projects https://www.hazelgurlandpooler.com/about daily 0.75 2024-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5be08ed5365f02ec4ba3a9bd/1541464311078-6JMLYVS0U0TD9DRUP7GJ/Hazel2.jpg Reel/Bio - Hazel is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. photo courtesy of Jonathan Lewis https://www.hazelgurlandpooler.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5be08ed5365f02ec4ba3a9bd/b9c0cde5-4e18-4dca-8b6d-931f323ac5c9/699A4833.jpg Contact - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.