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Bill Jersey

Bill Jersey
Film director, Producer, Screenwriter
Principal country concerned : Column : Music, Theater, Cinema/tv, Dance

Bill Jersey has been creating television documentaries for over 40 years. His credits include the 1965 Academy Award nominated A TIME FOR BURNING, hailed at the time by Fred Friendly as the "best civil rights film ever made." Mr. Jersey has won major awards for subsequent films, including an Emmy for CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE and a duPont Columbia Silver Baton for THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS: REFLECTIONS ON U.S.-SOVIET RELATIONS. His SUPERCHIEF: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF EARL WARREN received both Academy Award and Emmy Award nominations. Mr. Jersey's other projects include THE GLORY AND THE POWER, on religious fundamentalism, LOYALTY AND BETRAYAL: THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN MOB, for FOX television, and most recently, for WGBH, WHAT ABOUT GOD?, a look at the continuing conflicts between evolutionists and creationists.

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Guerrilla Arts
  • HOT
  • Bayimba
  • Uganda Women Writers Association
  • Arts 256
  • 32º East
  • Amakula Festival

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