EYES ON THE PRIZE III picks up where the groundbreaking 1987 series about America's Civil Rights Movement left off, illuminating the bold stories of people and communities who continue to work for equity and racial justice from the dawn of the Reagan era through the Obama presidency.
Inspired by Henry Hampton’s legendary PBS documentary series “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement,” this new installment of the groundbreaking 1987 series illuminates the bold stories of people and communities who continue to work for equity and racial justice in the years since the birth of the American civil rights movement.
This new chapter of the iconic series begins in the late 1970s and continues into 2015, with episodes examining the strategies of those who fought for racial equality across multiple decades. As in the original production, diverse teams of acclaimed filmmakers bring each story to life by showcasing the work of citizens in an ever-more multicultural society working to achieve true equity.
Presenting contemporary history in context with archival footage and intimate interviews with those who personally participated in collective movements, the series is a wide-ranging meditation about the ongoing struggle for freedom, racial justice, and equity in the years since the civil rights movement, reflecting untold stories of the people and communities fighting for a better future in a changing America.
Asako Gladsjo is an award-winning documentary director, producer, and writer. Her recent credits include an upcoming reboot of the landmark civil rights series Eyes on the Prize for HBO; Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities, a feature documentary co-directed with Sam Pollard; Why We Hate, a 6-hour Discovery series executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney; (Un)Well for Netflix; By Whatever Means Necessary, executive produced by Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi for Epix; the Emmy-nominated PBS special Black America since MLK: And Still I Rise; America by the Numbers for Maria Hinojosa and PBS; and Soundtracks: Songs that Made History for CNN; as well as multiple projects with Henry Louis Gates Jr. including the acclaimed six-hour PBS series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, which won Emmy, DuPont, Peabody, and NAACP Image awards, as well as multiple seasons of the PBS Series Finding Your Roots and African American Lives. In addition to her work in the United States, Gladsjo has directed and written documentaries on society, culture, race, and immigration for international broadcasters including Arte (Une Enfance Gay, Prier dans la Cité des Anges), BBC (Pandemonium), France 2 and France 5 (Peuples d’Ici, Français d’Ailleurs), and others while based in Paris. She teaches directing in the School of Visual Art’s MFA Program in Social Documentary.
DOC NYC Festival 2024
Executive Producer - Dawn Porter
