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Stephanie Black is an American documentary film director and producer. She resides in New York City.

Her award-winning film works include H-2 Worker, which documents the more than 10,000 Caribbean men brought to Florida each year under a temporary guestworker "H-2" visa to harvest sugar cane for American sugar corporations. The film won Best Documentary Award and Best Cinematography Awards at Sundance Film Festival in 1990.[1] Life and Debt (2001), on the impact the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank and current globalization policies have had on the economic development of Jamaica, won widespread recognition, including a Critics Jury Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival.[2]

In 2008, Stephanie Black produced and directed "Africa Unite", a feature-length musical documentary on Bob Marley's 60th birthday celebration in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia for the Marley family.[1]

Stephanie Black is also a television director of children's programming for Sesame Street, Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network.[citation needed] She has also directed television specials broadcast on Lifetime TV and BRAVO.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b "Marley film to debut at Carib". Jamaica Gleaner News. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
  2. ^ Stephen Holden (June 15, 2001). "One Love, One Heart, Or a Sweatshop Economy?". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2018-10-11. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
  1. Greg Tate http://www.villagevoice.com/2001-06-12/news/journey-through-debtor-s-prison/1/
  2. Linton Kwesi Johnson http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2003/feb/28/artsfeatures1
  3. The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2003/feb/28/artsfeatures.documentary