# Jamila Wignot

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STAX: SOULSVILLE, USA doc grabs two Emmy nominations

Brooklyn fillmmaker Jamila Wignot directs STAX: SOULSVILLE, USA documentary series to two Emmy nominations

The Frank MacKay Show - Jamila Wignot

Film director and producer Jamila Wignot joins Frank Mackay on this episode of The Frank Mackay Show!

Joe Francis: Indie Sleaze | 140

Joe Francis created an empire of spring break smut with the “Girls Gone Wild” video series. But the story behind the alcohol-fueled antics is darker than you think. Scaachi interviews Jamila Wignot, director of the docuseries “Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story” as they revisit Scaachi’s original re…

Jamila Wignot on directing and loving the sounds of STAX: SOULSVILLE, U.S.A.

On this episode, STAX: SOULSVILLE U.S.A. director Jamila Wignot chats with WBGO's Doug Doyle about the documentary

The DocArena Podcast: Episode 11 – Jamila Wignot (Ailey)

In this episode of The DocArena Podcast, Ross Whitaker talks to Jamila Wignot about her documentary Ailey.Alvin Ailey was a visionary artist who found salvation through dance. Directed by Jamila Wignot, the celebrated documentary is an immersive profile of ground-breaking and influential choreograp…

Reconnecting the Man to the Legacy: Inside AILEY

Ahead of a special screening at Art Farm at Serenbe, WABE Arts goes inside AILEY, the documentary that reconnects choreographer Alvin Ailey to his life, voice, and legacy. Director Jamila Wignot and former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater company member and educator Nasha Thomas reflect on hearin…

AILEY Dinner with the Director | Jamila Wignot at Art Farm Serenbe

Art Farm at Serenbe kicked off its 2026 season with an unforgettable Evening with the Director celebrating AILEY, the acclaimed documentary about legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey. This intimate wine dinner featured filmmaker Jamila Wignot (Ailey, STAX: Soulsville USA) in conversation about the …

Stax: Jamila Wignot on Stax Records, Soul Music, and the Threat of Black Business Success

In this episode, we examine the four-part Peabody Award-winning HBO documentary series Stax: Soulsville USA through a conversation with the film’s director, Jamila Wignot. The series chronicles the incredible rise and fall, and rise and fall again, of Stax Records, the Memphis soul record label tha…

Ep. 286 l RKO, Stax, and Music Rights: How Does a Catalog Become a Movie?

Do you have a documentary, or do you have a Wikipedia entry? Music rights for film are the reason a lot of documentaries never get finished. Sophia Dilley has cleared them at a scale most filmmakers will never face. Her team's Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. needed more than thirty artists, multiple pub…