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Leveling Lincoln

Project Type

Feature Length Documentary

Date

2022

Role

Director of Photography

Watch

Stream the film on PBS

Awards and Nominations

2024 Daytime Emmy:
Best Educational or Informational Program

2024 Telly Awards
Winner: Silver, General - Online Series, Shows & Segments
Winner: Silver, General - Documentary: Long Form (Above 40 minutes)
Winner: Bronze Telly Award - Craft-Directing

YoFi Film Festival 2022
Winner: Juried Award for Best Documentary

Lady Filmmakers Festival:
Winner: Best Feature Documentary

Vegas Movie Awards:
Winner: Best Documentary Award of Merit
Winner: Best First Time Director Award of Excellence
Winner: Best Woman Filmmakers Award of Merit

Rhode Island Black Film Festival 2022
Winner: Best Historical Film

Toronto International Women Festival 2022
Winner: Best Historical Film

Harlem International Film Festival 2022
Winner: New York Vision Award

Leveling Lincoln explores the history behind the landmark 1961 desegregation case of Taylor vs. Board of Education of New Rochelle, NY where an entire elementary school had to be torn down to achieve a level playing field in education. The case, the first of its kind in the North (seven years after Brown vs. The Board of Education), was praised on the floor of the United States Senate as an example of successful integration by peaceful protest, discourse, and jurisprudence. In its wake New Rochelle leveled the school. A new school was never built and the vacuum created in the Lincoln Avenue community remains today.