Whitney Dow

With an early foundation in advertising and brand films, Whitney Dow is considered a formative figure in documentary film today. He directed the well-known film Two Towns of Jasper, as well as I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, Unfinished Country, and When the Drum is Beating (about music in Haiti). Dow is also a prolific documentary producer, including on the films Freedom Summer, The Undocumented, Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America, Toots and Among the Believers.

International film festivals and television networks around the world have exhibited his films, as have the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Smithsonian Institution. Dow is recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont Award, Anthony Radziwill Documentary Achievement Award, and the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award as well as many film festival honors. He teaches filmmaking at Hunter College in NYC. Dow directs and produces corporate, brand, and non-profit shorts with DB Productions.