Louis Massiah

Massiah graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. degree, and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an M.S. in documentary filmmaking.

He has been an artist-in-residence and on faculty at City College of New York, Princeton University, Ithaca College, the University of Pennsylvania, American University, Haverford College,{{cite web|url=http://www.biconews.com/?p=7176 |title=Filmmaker Louis Massiah: HC's Artist in Residence |last=Puttieva |first=Karina |work=Bi-College News|date=May 9, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090708193628/http://www.biconews.com/?p=7176 |archive-date=2009-07-08 |access-date=2016-12-01 |url-status=dead }} and most recently at Swarthmore College and Temple University.

Massiah is the founder and executive director of the Scribe Video Center, a media arts center providing educational workshops for community groups and emerging independent media makers.[http://www.haikuconference.com/louis-massiah/ "Louis Massiah"], HAIKU (The Humanities and the Arts in the Integrated Knowledge University). Since 2005, he has served as executive producer of Precious Places, a Philadelphia video history project that tells histories of the city's communities as a collection short films conceived and produced by community members.{{Cite web|last=City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy|date=April 2018|title=Louis Messiah|url=https://creativephl.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/LMassiah.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=November 12, 2020|website=}}{{Cite web|title=Precious Places Community History Project|url=https://www.scribe.org/precious-places-community-history-project|access-date=2021-01-21|website=Scribe Video Center}} With funding from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, he also directed a community film history project in 2014 called Muslim Voices of Philadelphia, which explored the history of Philadelphia's diverse Muslim communities (including Sufis, Sunnis, the Nation of Islam, the Ahmadis, the Moorish Science Temple of America, and others) through a series of short films.{{Cite web|date=2014-02-19|title=About|url=http://www.muslimvoicesphiladelphia.org/about/|access-date=2020-11-12|website=Muslim Voices of Philadelphia|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last= |date=2016-11-30|title=Muslim Voices of Philadelphia - GRANT|url=https://www.pewcenterarts.org/grant/muslim-voices-philadelphia|access-date=2020-11-12|website=The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage|language=en}}

Discussing the goals and achievement of the Scribe Video Center in a program for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) in 2020, Massiah described it as an effort of "participatory community video", which responded to issues such as gentrification and low-income housing shortages while aiming to develop new understandings of place and history, new visions of what the community can be, and new plans for civic engagement. He noted that he had worked with UNICEF to establish similar programs in Haiti and Jamaica.{{Cite web|last=Massiah|first=Louis|date=March 2020|title=Participatory Community Video, Scribe Video Center, and Place by Louis Massiah - FLEFF - Ithaca College|url=https://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/tropianoandzimmermann/massiah/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-12|website=www.ithaca.edu}}

• 1996: MacArthur Fellows Program
• 1990, 1996: Tribeca Film Institute Fellow{{cite web|url=http://www.mediaartists.org/content.php?sec=artist&sub=detail&artist_id=155 |title=Louis Massiah |work=Mediaartists.org |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040913123305/http://www.mediaartists.org/content.php?sec=artist&sub=detail&artist_id=155 |archive-date=2004-09-13 |access-date=2016-12-01 }}
• 2009: Fleisher Founder's Award {{cite web |url=http://www.fleisher.org/calendar/founders2009-massiah.php |title=2009 Founder's Award recipient |publisher=Fleisher Art Memorial |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723071518/http://www.fleisher.org/calendar/founders2009-massiah.php |archive-date=2011-07-23 |access-date=2016-12-02 }}

• The Bombing of Osage Avenue (producer/director), 1986
• Power! (co-producer/writer/director), 1990[http://www.law.duke.edu/features/news_massiah.html "Independent documentary filmmaker Louis Massiah screens film at Duke Law on Jan.24"], Duke Law, January 24, 2025.
• A Nation of Law? (co-producer/writer/director), 1990
• W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices, 1996{{cite web | last=Goodman | first=Walter | title=Pioneer in Sociology, Persevering Fighter for Civil Rights | website=The New York Times | date=1997-02-07 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/07/arts/pioneer-in-sociology-persevering-fighter-for-civil-rights.html | access-date=2016-12-02}}[http://scribe.org/catalogue/web-du-bois-biography-four-voices W.E.B. Du Bois : A Biography In Four Voices], Scribe Video Center
• Louise Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words, 1996. A short film about activist Louise Thompson Patterson[http://scribe.org/catalogue/louise-thompson-patterson-her-own-words "Louise Alone Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words"], Scribe Video Center.
• A is for Anarchist, B is for Brown, 2002 (producer){{cite web | url=https://scribe.org/catalogue/anarchist-b-brown | title=A is for Anarchist, B is for Brown |website=Scribe Video Center}}
• How to Make A Flower: La Méthode MOBO, 2020 (director)

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