An award-winning filmmaker, Stanley Nelson has over 20 years' experience as a producer, director, and writer of documentary films and videos. Founder and president of Half Nelson Productions, Inc., an independent production company, his most recent production is The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords, a documentary on the history of African American newspapers which has received the support of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ford Foundation, among others. Nelson's credits also include several productions for the Smithsonian Institution, including Free Within Ourselves, a documentary portrait of African American artists (winner of the CINE Golden Eagle), and Climbing Jacob's Ladder, a 30-minute film concerning African American church history. He has produced several films on location throughout West and southern Africa. Nelson's television credits include serving as a producer for many PBS programs, including Listening to America and What Can We Do about Violence? with Bill Moyers , and Election '93, for which he was nominated for an Emmy award. He was also a producer for the acclaimed Fox-TV series, TV Nation. A graduate of the Leonard Davis Film School at the City University of New York, Nelson has taught film production at Howard University. He has been a fellow of the American Film Institute, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Washington, D.C. Commission for the Arts, and a Revson Fellow at Columbia University. For three years, Nelson served on the selection panel for the Fulbright fellowship in film. In the spring of 1997, he was named a University Regents Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego.