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Key Production Personnel


Arleigh Prelow, Producer-Director/Writer

Arleigh Prelow is an Independent Filmmaker and Writer based in Berkeley, CA. Prelow's credits include Howard Thurman: Spirit of the Movement for the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; Producer of In Search of the Sacred for the Smithsonian Institution; Producer/Director of a documentary on the Committee for Boston Public Housing, We're Power Together, Co-producer, The Civil Rights Video Wall, Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles; Men of Vision, for the Boston Museum of Afro-American History; Co-producer, Research and Development, of the PBS documentary Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History; and Production Manager, New Worlds, New Forms for the PBS/BBC series Dancing. Prelow's early credits include Associate Producer for the PBS series, From Jumpstreet: A Story of Black Music; Program Segment Producer for the WTBS, Atlanta and KPIX-TV in San Francisco. Prelow is a regional Emmy award winner for her TBS documentary Sweet Auburn.


Jean Philippe-Boucicaut, Editor

Jean-Philippe Boucicaut is an Emmy award-winning editor. His work has garnered prestigious recognitions, including a duPont-Columbia Gold Baton and three Peabody Awards. His credits include American Blackout; Citizen King; Liberia: America’s Stepchild; We’re Still Here, a film about the Lakota Indians; Secret Daughter; and Africans in America.


Camara Kambon, Music Score

Composer Camara Kambon is the youngest composer ever to receive a national Emmy award for the HBO film, Sonny Liston: The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion. He received his second Emmy nomination for the HBO documentary, Where Have You Gone Joe DiMaggio? Among his other scoring credits are the PBS documentaries, Citizen King, Family Name, Malcolm X: Make It Plain, and Questioning Faith: Confessions of a Seminarian. Additional credits include: Biker Boyz; Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday; IMAX’s Michael Jordan to the Max; and Paramount's The Tiger Woods Story.



Academic Advisors


Dr. Walter E. Fluker

Editor, A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life; Author, They Looked For a City: A Comparative Analysis of the Ideal Community in the Thought of Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King Jr.; Editor, The Howard Thurman Papers; Director of the Leadership Center, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA.


Dr. Vincent G. Harding

Historian; Author, Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero; The Other American Revolution; There is a River; and Hope and History. Co-chairperson, Veterans of Hope Project: A Center for the Study of Religion and Democratic Renewal; Vice President of Institutional Transformation and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Social Transformation, Iliff School of Theology, Denver, CO.


Dr. Martin E. Marty

Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago; Author of over 50 books, including the three-volume Modern American Religion, The One and the Many: America’s Struggle for the Common Good, and Places Along the Way: Meditations on the Journey of Faith. Contributing Editor, The Christian Century; Former President of the American Academy of Religion and the American Society of Church History.


Dr. Luther Smith

Author, Howard Thurman:Essential Writings ( Modern Spiritual Masters); Howard Thurman: The Mystic as Prophet; Intimacy and Mission: Intentional Community as Crucible for Radical Discipleship; Associate Editor, The Howard Thurman Papers; Professor of Church and Community, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.