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.