Through musical animated shorts, The History of White People in America tells the history of how skin became race, and race became power.
July 6, 2020
6 episodes x 6 minutes
Director
Ed Bell is a filmmaker, creative director, and animation artist trained by mavericks Ralph Bakshi and Brad Bird. As a commercial director at Wild Brain, he developed various TV and film projects. He also contributed as a director on HBO's Good Night Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales, which won an Emmy Award.
Director
Pierce Freelon is a two-time Grammy®-nominated artist, author, podcaster, and ice cream maker. He co-created the PBS Kids podcast Jamming on the Job and Beat Making Lab, an Emmy Award-winning web series. An Afrofuturist entrepreneur, Pierce founded Blackspace, a digital makerspace for teens and Coco Fro, a vegan, freeze-dried ice cream company.
Director
Jon Halperin is a three-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. He has produced, directed, written, and overseen documentaries for Netflix, Amazon, PBS, National Geographic, Time, ITVS, TED, and Discovery. He co-runs Room 608, a New York production company.
Director
Aaron Keane started his 25-year career in audio engineering as a musician and recording engineer, working with diverse musical artists. Now he composes music for TV, film, and digital media. Credits include music composition for the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Twice Born and short films for TED Science and Wonder.
Director
Drew Takahashi is the emperor of Funjacket Enterprises, and was previously co-founder and chief creative officer of Colossal Pictures. He has worked on broadcast identities, commercials, music videos, and interfaces. Drew continues to design and direct corporate communications, transformative games, and animated portions of documentaries.
Producer
Clementine Briand is a multimedia producer working across corporate videos, TV, and film, with a focus on nonfiction. She has produced for ITVS and freelanced on projects like The History of White People (Tribeca) and Personhood (DOC NYC). After earning her master's degree in Berlin, she founded Farrago, a nonfiction artist collective.