STACEY L. HOLMAN

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Stacey L. Holman is a Harlem-based filmmaker who’s directed/produced several award-winning projects including episode three of the 2018 PBS series Reconstruction: America After the Civil War hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. She was a producer on the critically acclaimed documentary Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities and served as Associate Producer on the Emmy award-winning film Freedom Riders produced/directed by Stanley Nelson. Additionally, Stacey was Coordinating Producer for Nelson’s Peabody Award-winning documentary Freedom Summer, and she was Co-Producer on Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band.   

Other credits include Producer on the critically acclaimed documentary Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities, Associate Producer on the Emmy-winning Freedom Riders, and Coordinating Producer for the Peabody-winning Freedom Summer, all directed by Stanley Nelson. She was also Co-Producer on Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band. 

Stacey has directed/produced award-winning shorts (Mirar Mirror, Girl Talk) and content for cable TV (Red Heeled). Her documentary Dressed Like Kings — filmed in Johannesburg, South Africa — garnered the Tribeca Film Festival All Access Award and aired on the WORLD Channel as part of the AfroPoP Shorts Program.

For over 10-years Stacey’s taught future filmmakers at The City College of New York and MFA candidates at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ.

Stacey is a proud graduate of Dillard University and the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program.