meet the filmmakers
Louis Massiah is standing outside a building with large windows, wearing a blue and white checkered shirt.

Louis Massiah

Louis Massiah is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia.

He has developed production methodologies that assist first time makers author their own stories, including the Precious Places Community History project, a collection of 150 documentaries; Muslim Voices of Philadelphia; The Great Migration - A City Transformed and The Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets.

Massiah’s documentaries include The Bombing of Osage Avenue, W.E.B. Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices, Cecil B. Moore, two films for the Eyes on the Prize II series, A isfor Anarchist, B is for Brown and TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing.

Monica Henriquez wearing a black blazer and white t-shirt, seated in a room with bookshelves and artwork in the background.

Monica Henriquez

Monica Henriquez is a Venezuelan/Dutch freelance film and video editor/director, based in the UK since 1978.

She trained at the BBC in the 1980s, and worked as an editor for Channel Four (UK) in several projects on Latin America, notably the Marc Karlin Nicaragua Series (1985-1991); Faction Films Fidel (1998). For the U.S. network PBS, she was editor of WEB Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices (1995), and was researcher/associate producer of The Hugo Chavez Show Frontline (2008). She was Producer/Director of Gynecological Chronicles (1992) and Director/Editor of Murder and Feather Boa (1996), both for Channel Four UK.

For almost 2 decades she has been filming and building a digital archive on Venezuela in the times of Hugo Chavez and beyond. Recently she was the Editor/Director with Louis Massiah as Producer/ Director of TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing.