‘An independent producer’s 25 year relationship with Public Broadcasting, both as an insider and as an outsider. A journey of discover, opportunity, resentment and respect for how we grew up together. “

Independent documentary filmmaker Orlando Bagwell takes a personal look at Public Television, from the mid-70s when he first started working as a young documentary maker just out of college at WGBH’s famous film department, and tracks the story of a new, emerging network coming of age, creating itself, and today struggling with what it has become and whether it can remain healthy and viable.

Orlando Bagwell’s extraordinary range of work in documentary—much of it done at the now-legendary production company, Blackside Inc—extends over two decades. Widely regarded as the preeminent documentary chronicler of American pluralism, his internationally acclaimed filmograpy includes “Eyes On Prize,” “Roots Of Resistance: A Story Of The Underground Railroad,” “Frederick Douglass: When The Lion Wrote History,” “Malcolm X: Make it Plain,” “The Great Depression,” “Africans In America,” “Hymn To Alvin Ailey.” This year his work on public television includes the four part series “Matters of Race,” and the feature length documentary “Citizen King.”

Jon Else, director of the Graduate School Of Journalism’s documentary program, will introduce Bagwell.