Bagwell, Orlando (Personal Name)

Running with Jesse [VR] c1988: credits (Orlando Bagwell)

The History Makers, via WWW, July 12, 2013 (Orlando Bagwell; filmmaker; born in Baltimore, Maryland; in 1969, his family moved to Nashua, New Hampshire; B.S. degree in film, University of Boston, 1973; M.A. degree in broadcast journalism, Boston University, 1975; in the early 1970s, Bagwell worked for the United South End Settlements (USES) and was active in the organization's after school program; he later became a substitute teacher for the South Boston Public School District where he taught political science and history; Bagwell was contracted by Boston's WGBH-TV to work as a film producer in 1975; in 1988, he served as a staff producer for the PBS weekly program Frontline; that same year, he produced a documentary on the Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.'s presidential campaign entitled Running with Jesse; in 1989, Bagwell founded the Boston based media company, Roja Productions, Inc. and produced Roots of Resistance: A Story of the Underground Railroad; from 1991 until 1994, Bagwell was the executive vice president for the Eyes on the Prize PBS documentary series on the Civil Rights Movement; he produced episodes of the Blackside series entitled Mississippi: Is this America? and Ain't Scared of Your Jails for which he received the Alfred DuPont Award and the Peabody Award; in 1995, Bagwell served as the executive producer for the not-for-profit WGBH Educational Foundation, and in 1999, he produced the six hour documentary called Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery; Bagwell became the program officer for the Ford Foundation's Media Arts and Culture unit in 2004)

Maryland Manural On-Line, via WWW, July 12, 2013 (Maryland at a Glance: Arts; Directors; Bagwell, Orlando N. (1951-); born in Baltimore, Maryland)