Charles Burnett

A MacArthur grant recipient and a Guggenheim Fellow, Charles Burnett’s body of work is recognized with an honorary Academy Award. His films include The Glass Shield, a groundbreaking narrative on police corruption and violence, My Brother’s Wedding, the classic Library of Congress National Film Registry selections Killer of Sheep (among the registry’s first 50 films) and To Sleep With Anger (starring Danny Glover). Burnett’s nonfiction work includes The Blues, produced by Martin Scorsese, Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property, and the recent PBS documentary Power To Heal, on the painful and death-riddled history of segregation at southern U.S. Hospitals.