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Stephanie Black

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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 has directed live-action documentary segments for Sesame Street and episodes of the reality television series Being Bobby Brown.[3] She also produced for the children's shows U to U, Big Bag, and Zoom.[4]

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  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.
  3. ^ Fuchs, Cynthia. "Life and Debt - Interview with Stephanie Black - Nitrate Online Feature". nitrateonline.com. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
  4. ^ "Life and Debt Key Personnel Credits". www.lifeanddebt.org. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
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