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Production
2023

Untitled Policing Documentary (wt)

IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund Grantee

  • black and white headshot of Charles Burnett
    Charles Burnett, Director
  • black and white headshot of Nicole Lucas Haimes
    Nicole Lucas Haimes, Producer
Police officer in silhouette.

About the Project

Untitled Policing Documentary is a film like no other, an explosive confessional told from behind the thin blue line, it examines police crime and the personal and political consequences of law enforcement wrongdoing on officers and their victims.

Project Team

    black and white headshot of Charles Burnett

    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.

    black and white headshot of Nicole Lucas Haimes

    Nicole Lucas Haimes

    Nicole Lucas Haimes is an award-winning documentary filmmaker known for her richly observed character portrayals and incisive exploration of little-known worlds. Her television credits include CBS, BET, and the ABC News flagship documentary series, Turning Point. For PBS, Haimes produced and directed the Emmy-nominated Cracking The Code. She directed and Co-Executive Produced for A&E, Confessions of the DC Sniper, featuring the first exclusive interview with Lee Boyd Malvo. Her feature documentaries include the New York Times Critic pick Chicken People, which opened at SXSW before its 2016 theatrical release. It received nominations for SXSW’s Gamechanger Award and Nashville’s Grand Jury prize. Her critically acclaimed film, The Good, The Bad, The Hungry, for ESPN Films 30 for 30, premiered at Tribeca in 2019. Her most recent effort, the doc short Outsider which she produced, will premiere at Montclair Film Festival 2023.

    Nicole’s investigation, Who Killed Julian Pierce? for Mel magazine, was selected as a Notable Narrative by the Neiman Storyboard and a Longform top ten crime article for 2017.