
Stacy Robinson

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Stacy Robinson
Black, African American, or African
Affiliations
DPA, BGDM, Mezcla Media CollectiveBio
Stacy Robinson currently serves as the Artistic Director of Kartemquin
Films, Chicago’s storied documentary film powerhouse. She is an award-
winning filmmaker with twenty years of experience writing and producing
documentaries for CNBC, OWN,PBS and numerous cable networks. As a
storyteller, she searches for the emotional soul of every story, no matter how
big – or how small the subject might seem.
Most recently, she produced a 6-episode series for Disney+ on a figure
skating troupe from Harlem. Robinson wrote and directed Emmy Award
winning documentaries on Ida B. Wells and the Birth of Gospel Music for WTTW PBS in
Chicago. She is the winner of Peter Lisagor awards for historical and cultural journalism.
Previously, she received a National Emmy nomination for News and Documentary for her work
as Co-Director of We Are Witnesses: Chicago in collaboration with Kartemquin Films and The
Marshall Project.
In the journalism landscape, Stacy has also written and produced an hour-long documentary
film for Discovery Networks on the female doctors who provide healthcare inside Chicago’s
Cook County Jail. With unprecedented months-long access following the doctors and jail
detainees, she wrote and supervised a 6-hour follow-up documentary series focusing on
pregnant women detained at Cook County Jail and the unique emotional and physical
challenges they face.
With National Geographic, Stacy Robinson served as supervising producer for the documentary
series, Final Report, focusing on such watershed moments in American history as TWA Flight
800, Attica Prison Riot, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and the Gulf War.
Stacy grew up in Claremont California and holds her bachelor’s degree in fine art from The
School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She now calls the Midwest her permanent home and
serves as Artistic Director for Kartemquin Films.