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TELL IT MEDIA SPECIALIZES IN films, UNSCRIPTED SERIES, and immersive media projects that BRING INTIMATE storytelling and in-depth analysis TO DOCUMENTING the PLACES AND PEOPLE NOT seen OFTEN ENOUGH with NUANCE AND ACCURACY in the mainstream. Jacqueline Olive founded THE PRODUCTION COMPANY with documentary filmmaking as the cornerstone of its mission AND A DEDICATION TO authenticity and unBOUNDed creativity.
LINCOLN’S DILEMMA | Apple TV+ | 2023 Emmy Award-nomination Jacqueline Olive: DIRECTOR Episodes 1 & 4, ExecUTIVE ProdUCER
thIS 4-EPISODE series PROVIDES A nuanced look into ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S PRESIDENCY, WHILE EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF SLAVERY AND THE TIMES ON the man dubbed the Great Emancipator. LINCOLN’S DILEMMA FEATURES insights from a diverse range of journalists, educators and Lincoln SchOlars, as well as rare archival materials THAT JUST AS IMPORTANTLY give voice to the narratives of enslaved people, shaping a more complete view of an America divided over issues including economy, race and humanity.
Always in Season | PBS | 2019 Sundance Special Jury AWARD
Jacqueline Olive: Director, producer & WRITER
When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins while the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present. Released on independent lens on pBS in 2019, Always in Season explores the lingering impact of more than a century of lynching African Americans and connects this form of historic racial terrorism to racial violence today.
DEATH IS OUR BUSINESS | FRONTLINE/PBS | RELEASE DATE: APr 2021
Jacqueline Olive: Director, producer & WRITER
DEATH IS OUR BUSINESS, TAKES VIEWERS INSIDE TWO BLACK-OWNED FUNERAL HOMES IN NEW ORLEANS AND FOLLOWS FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND STAFF GRAPPLING WITH NEW PANDEMIC RESTRICTIONS, AS THEY WORK TO SAFELY PREPARE THE DECEASED AND BRING COMFORT TO A GRIEVING CITY. THIS SHORT DOCUMENTARY offsetS heartbreak and loss with MUSIC-FILLED celebration, paying homage to New Orleans’ esteemed tradition of jubilant jazz funerals that honor culture bearers and lost loved ones.