WHITENESS PROJECT - INTERSECTION OF I
ABOUT
The Whiteness Project is now in its 6th year of production and has conducted over three hundred interviews with people who identify as white, or partially white, and complied complex datasets on almost 1,000 people. The interviews for “Intersection of I” were filmed in Dallas, TX during the summer of 2015 with Millennials aged 14 - 24 with a variety of sexual orientations, gender identities, and from varied socioeconomic backgrounds.
Whitney Dow has been producing and directing films focused on race and identity for over two decades. Dow’s films have premiered at Sundance, Tribeca and IDFA, and been broadcast on networks around the world. His director credits include: Towns of Jasper, I Sit Where I Want, Unfinished Country and When the Drum is Beating. His producing credits include: Freedom Summer, Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks out of Town in America, The Undocumented, Toots, and Among the Believers. His his work has been recognized numerous awards including: 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. Dow teaches narrative theory at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation.
CREDITS
Michelle Byrd
Naomi Ranz-Schleifer