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The Picture Taker

Meet Ernest Withers, civil rights photographer, and FBI informant. The Picture Taker reveals the man and motives behind the iconic images.

Premiere Date

January 30, 2023

Length

90 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Awards & Recognition

Nominee

2024 Peabody Awards - George Foster Peabody Award

filmmaker Phil Bertelsen
Phil Bertelsen

Director

Emmy and Peabody winner Phil Bertelsen directed Through the Fire, School of the Future, and episodes of The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross and Finding Your Roots. He co-directed NBC’s Hope and Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media and Netflix's Who Killed Malcolm X?, which helped exonerate two men convicted of Malcolm X’s murder. 

filmmaker Lise Yasui
Lise Yasui

Producer

Lise Yasui produced and directed the Oscar-nominated Family Gathering, about her Japanese American family’s WWII internment experience. It aired on American Experience, the BBC, and Star TV. She co-produced Frontline's Peabody-winning The Gate of Heavenly Peace, about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, which was broadcast internationally.