USA / 2016 / 60mins / Documentary / English

Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement is an original documentary film that chronicles the evolution of the Black Lives Matter movement through the first person accounts of local activists, protesters, scholars, journalists and others.

Laurens Grant

Laurens Grant is a Peabody and three-time Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has produced and directed films all over the world. Grant directed Rokia: Voice of a New Generation, a personal story that explores gender, race, borders, and an African woman’s struggle to create music that transcends them all. Grant traveled extensively around the world with Rokia Traoré, a musician from Mali, West Africa and was granted rare access to the singer’s family, recording sessions, and rehearsals including those with the critically-acclaimed Kronos Quartet. Grant produced the feature length documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, on the history of the Black Panther Party for PBS. Grant directed the film Jesse Owens, about the African-American sprinter and his defiance of Hitler’s Aryan beliefs at the 1936 Olympics. The documentary won an Emmy for Outstanding Research, and received two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Historical – Long Form and Outstanding Music and Sound. Grant also produced Freedom Riders, about the 1961 protest movement called ‘freedom rides’, which won 3 Primetime Emmys and a Peabody. Both films aired on PBS’ American Experience series. Grant has also produced and directed projects for A&E, The History Channel and for non-profit organizations in the Caribbean and several African countries. Grant is a voting member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Television Academy. She is also a member of the Television Academy’s Documentary Peer Group Executive Committee. Learn More