Orlando Bagwell

Orlando Bagwell (born June 2, 1951) is an American film director. His films focus on the history of African Americans in the United States. He has won multiple awards.

Early life and education Bagwell was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 2, 1951. As a teenager, Bagwell arranged sensitivity workshops for the Catholic Youth Organization in Nashua, New Hampshire, where he showed films produced by others. At the time, Bagwell thought that he would enter a career in medicine. Bagwell obtained both his bachelor's and master's degrees in broadcast journalism from Boston University.

Bagwell produced numerous documentaries in collaboration with GBH, such as two episodes from the series Eyes on the Prize (1987, Mississippi: Is this America? and Ain't Scared of Your Jails) and American Experience'''s Malcolm X: Make it Plain (1994), among other undertakings. Additionally, he served as executive producer for Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (1998) and directed an episode of the series. He operates his production company, LakeHouse Films, located in New York City.

Reception Bagwell has won four Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, two DuPont Awards, and several Grand Prize recognitions at film festivals. Jon Else said in the book True South: Henry Hampton and "Eyes on the Prize," the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement'' that "Bagwell was, like Hampton, a mysteriously charismatic man with his own fierce vision who could go into a room and whip up enthusiasm and money for a great film".