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Madeline Anderson (born ca. 1923) is an American filmmaker, television and documentary producer, film director, editor and screenwriter. She is best known for her films Integration Report One (1960) and I Am Somebody (1970), the latter of which garnered national and international acclaim.
Pioneering filmmaker and television producer Madeline Anderson is often credited as being the first black woman to produce and direct a televised documentary film, the first black woman to produce and direct a syndicated tv series, the first black employee at New York-based public television station WNET, and one of the first black women to ...
Madeline Anderson: African-American Trailblazer. By Michelle Materre. How to begin to describe the career of Madeline Anderson? At the marvelous age of 91 years young and 4 feet 8 inches tall, Madeline continues to be a force to be reckoned with.
By Ashley Clark. From Metrograph Vol. 7, Spring 2017. The documentarian discusses how she began her career as a Black, female filmmaker in the early 1960s. Pennsylvania native Madeline Anderson may not be a household name, but she is a trailblazer in the world of nonfiction filmmaking.
Oct 29, 2020 · And Madeline Anderson, the first African-American woman to produce and direct a televised documentary film and a syndicated television series, has been at the helm—despite only receiving passing recognition in an obscure essay.
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In I Am Some-body (1969)—the most deeply personal of her films—Anderson documented what two labor historians contend was “one of the South’s most disruptive and bitter labor confrontations since the 1930s”: the strike largely by black women workers at the Medical College Hospital of the University of South.
Jul 29, 2021 · This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a special talk with the legendary filmmaker, Madeline Anderson. Cited as the first Black woman to direct a televised documentary film, Anderson’s work shines a light on the workers and activists in the civil rights movement.
