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Daphne A. McWilliams | Filmmaker
Daphne McWilliams began her career in front of the camera as a child actor and behind the camera producing music videos for Blues Traveler, the Notorious B.I.G. and Queen Latifah.

In 1995, she produced 4 Little Girls for director Spike Lee. The documentary — about the murder of four African-American girls in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street​ Baptist Church in ​Birmingham, Alabama​ — was nominated for an Academy Award.

McWilliams has since produced ​The Curious Case of Curt Flood​ (Spike Lee, 2011), Slavery by Another Name​ (Sam Pollard, 2012) and ​Maynard​ (Sam Pollard, 2018). And recently, she produced Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts (Jeffrey Wolf, 2019) and HBO's Black Art: In the Absence of Light (Sam Pollard, 2021).

McWilliams' directorial debut, ​In a Perfect World​ ..., ​was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2015 LA Film Festival and premiered on Showtime in 2018. She is currently directing Boston (R)evolution, a documentary about the historical 2022 Boston mayoral election now in post production.

Daphne, the seventh child of two seventh children, is a native New Yorker. She received her BFA from Fashion Institute of Technology and was the 2019 Susan Tifft Fellow at Duke University's​ ​Center for Documentary Studies.