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Sam Pollard
04/20/1945 (80 years old) | Harlem, USA | Male
Samuel D. Pollard (born 20 April, 1945; Harlem) is an American documentary director, producer and editor. His films have garnered numerous awards such as Peabodys, Emmys, and an Academy Award nomination. In 2020, the International Documentary Association gave him a career achievement award. Spike Lee, whose films Pollard has edited and produced, described him as being a master filmmaker. Henry Louis Gates Jr. characterizes his work in this way: When I think about his documentaries, they add up to a corpus — a way of telling African-American history in its various dimensions.
