Bill Miles
Biography and Awards
William Miles, president of Miles Educational
Film Productions, Inc. has produced and directed numerous award-winning
public television documentaries including the Academy Award nominated:
LIBERATORS: FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS IN WORLD WAR II, the Emmy
Award winner: THE BLACK WEST, the informative BLACK STARS IN
ORBIT, the nostalgic I REMEMBER HARLEM,the stunning MEN OF BRONZE,
as well as THE DIFFERENT DRUMMER: BLACKS IN THE MILITARY, and
BLACK CHAMPIONS to name a few.
William Miles' life's work is
dedicated to exploring the entire African American Experience
including the history, culture and achievements of African Americans
from their arrival in America in the 16th century, (depicted
in his award-winning PBS series I REMEMBER HARLEM; to their achievement
as astronauts, aeronautical scientists and engineers (examined
in his PBS special BLACK STARS IN ORBIT). Mr. Miles has won an
EMMY Award, been nominated for the OSCAR inducted into the Black
Filmmaker's Hall of Fame. Among numerous other awards garnered
both at home and abroad he has received the Lifetime Achievement
Award from the Association for independent Video and Filmmaker
(AIVF) in acknowledgment of his outstanding contribution to the
history of African American in the medium of film.
The only African American independent
to be based at THIRTEEN/WNET in New York City, William Miles
has produced many films dedicated to the African American Experience
that have been broadcast nationwide as SPECIALS. Miles' films
are based in in-depth historical and cultural research and are
committed to he dissemination on history to a broad national
audience on public television and educational institutions throughout
the world. Mr. Miles, in cooperation with THIRTEEN/WNET, produces
study guides to accompany his films, and actively participates
in the film's distribution. Miles Educational Films, Inc. is
about to embark on a production foray into the interactive multimedia
arena utilizing many materials from his body of work.
Miles spent three years researching
materials for I REMEMBER HARLEM, a four-hour special which traced
harlem's 350-year history, as a visual counter to the oral histories
in the film Miles unearthed archival photographs and motion pictures
stock footage along with newsreel films, much of it rare and
never before seen by the general public. In early 1982, one year
after it was broadcast, I REMEMBER HARLEM won an Alfred I. DuPont
Columbia University citation and an American Film Festival Award.
In 1977, Miles gained recognition
with three debut of MEN OF BRONZE the New York Film Festival
and its subsequent national public television airing later that
year. MEN OF BRONZE is an emotional outpouring of memories and
anecdotes, combined with treasured photos and archival footage,
of the all-Black 369th Infantry Regiment which, because of the
segregation policy of the United States military, fought under
the flag of france and was bestowed the "Croix de Guerre"
(French Medal of Valor) in the first World War.
Awards . AWARDS FILMS 1993 Grammy Awrads/ Documentary Featured
(Nomination)LIBERATORS: FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS IN WORLD WAR II 1988 Lifetime Achievement Award
Association for Independent Video & Films "Indie Award"- 1987 Award of Excellence
Communications Excellence to Black Audiences (CEBA)PAUL ROBSON: MAN OF CONSCIENCE 1987 Award of Merit
CEBABLACK CHAMPION Series 1987 Ohio States Award BLACK CHAMPION Series, Part II 1987 French Secretary of State for War Veterans Medal MEN OF BRONZE 1986 Spurgeon H. Burruss Award, 92nd Infantry Division WW II MEN OF BRONZE
and
DIFFERENT DRUMMER Series1984 Award of Excellence
CEBADIFFERENT DRUMMER Series 1983 D. Park Gibson Award DIFFERENT DRUMMER Series 1983 Distinguished Service Award, Tuskegee Airmen Inc. DIFFERENT DRUMMER Series 1983 Montford Point Marine Association DIFFERENT DRUMMER Series 1982 American Film Festival award I REMEMBER HARLEM Series 1982 Alfred I. Dupont - Columbia Award I REMEMBER HARLEM Series 1981 American Association for State & Local History Award I REMEMBER HARLEM Series 1981 The Malcolm X Award / Citizens for Safer Harlem I REMEMBER HARLEM Series 1981 Black Harlem Award I REMEMBER HARLEM Series 1981 Blackfrica Promotions & Harlem Week I REMEMBER HARLEM Series 1978 American Association for State & Local History Award MEN OF BRONZE 1978 CINE Golden Eagle Award MEN OF BRONZE 1978 New York Club MEN OF BRONZE 1977 Chicago Film Festival Award THOMAS HARDY'S WESSEX
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