60 Years

LightReel Film Fest 2024
U.S. | 2024 | 18 min

60 Years

DIRECTOR
Austin Mitchell

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Alex Appel

PRODUCER
Amy Hobby

EDITORS
Kristina Motwani, Tom Patterson

CINEMATOGRAPHER
Joaquin Martinez

Sixty years ago James Meredith enrolled at the University of Mississippi and helped integrate higher education in the South.

Austin Mitchell

Director, 60 Years

Dana Flor is a documentary director, producer, and writer based in Washington, DC. She co-directed and produced the film Check It, a feature-length documentary about a black gay street gang in DC, which premiered at Tribeca, and The Nine Lives of Marion Barry, a feature-length documentary about the notorious mayor that appeared on HBO. She also wrote and directed the Emmy award-winning documentary Latinos in Beisbol and the Emmy-nominated documentary Cesar Chavez for NBC.

She began her career as a news reporter and producer, working on a wide range of stories for Reuters Television, CNN, BBC, National Geographic, and others, covering breaking news in Latin America and around the world.

Flor is a recipient of a Tribeca Film Institute Documentary Fund Grant, the DC Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship, a Pare Lorenz Fund Grant, and an AFI Docs/NBC Universal Impact Grant. She also won an Influence Film Award from the Tribeca Documentary Fund.

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