CAA has signed documentarian Jamila Wignot, who recently premiered her latest Ailey at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Wignot previously directed the Peabody, Emmy, and NAACP award-winning PBS miniseries African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Her prior credits include the Peabody Award-winning Triangle Fire and and the Emmy-nominated episode Walt Whitman from PBS’ American Experience series.
As a producer, she has worked on W. Kamau Bell’s Bring the Pain and Musa Syeed’s 2018 indie feature A Stray.
Ailey, which explores dancer Alvin Ailey’s life and his connection to the dance company that still bears his name, was acquired by Neon out of Sundance.
