TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing

Louis Massiah is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia. His documentaries, include The Bombing of Osage Avenue, W.E.B. Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices, Cecil B. Moore, films for the Eyes on the Prize II series, and TCB – the Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing.

I am a Venezuelan freelance film and video editor/director who has worked for major broadcasters in the UK, USA, Europe and Latin America. I have been based in the UK since 1978. Having trained at the BBC in the 1980s, I worked across editing technologies from film, analogue tape to digital technologies. As an Editor I worked for the UK Broadcaster Channel Four in several projects on Latin America, notably the Marc Karlin “Nicaragua Series” 1985-1991; Maya Films “Stories for Cutzcatlán” 1989; Faction Films “Fidel” 1998. I was director/editor “Gynecological Chronicles”1992 and “Murder & the
Feather Boa”1996. For ZDF (Germany) editor “Iranian Journey” 1998 and co-director/editor for ZDF/Citurna (Colombia) “Wartakes” 2003. For the US network PBS, editor of the series “WEB Dubois: a biography in 4 voices”1995 and was
researcher/Associate producer “The Hugo Chavez Show” Frontline, 2008. I have an interest in archival, home movies and the creative explorations of history. For more than a decade I have been filming and building a digital archive on Venezuela in the times of Hugo Chavez, from his arrival on the scene through his death and beyond. More recently, I have been completing
the editing of TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing.