For as many years as i've been doing this - it's always a shock when you find you've been nominated for an award. And when it's an Emmy nomination...with heavy weight competition, it's all the more humbling. Executive Producing a feature doc is never simple (what's that old line about not seeing how sausages are made) but this film was complex in a myriad of ways. Among them - the topic, which demanded a treatment that was both honest and engaging. Peter Gilbert was able to deliver on both of those counts. Our partners at The Discovery Channel committed 100%... and did everything in their power to make this a film that would be important for historians and students for years to come. If you haven't seen it, you should. There is a lot about Brown vs. Board of Education that i didn't know... and this film brings a new generation into this important moment in US History. Now - all we need to do is beat HBO and American Experience, and we'll have an Emmy to add the the mantle. Argh. How does that go... "it's an honor to be nominated." True enough, but... :)

CATAGORY: Exceptional Merit In Nonfiction Filmmaking
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With All Deliberate Speed • Discovery Channel •
CameraPlanet Inc. for Discovery Channel

Steve Rosenbaum, Executive Producer
Don Baer, Executive Producer
Peter Gilbert, Produced by

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American Undercover: Last Letters Home • HBO • The
New York Times, HBO Original Programming, The
Couturie Company in association with LIFE Books

John Hoffman, Executive Producer
Sheila Nevins, Executive Producer
Jane Bornemeier, Executive Producer
Bill Couturie, Produced by
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Death In Gaza • HBO • HBO Documentaries

Sheila Nevins, Executive Producer
Nancy Abraham, Supervising Producer
James Miller, Producer
Saira Shah, Producer

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Guerrilla: The Taking Of Patty Hearst (American
Experience) • PBS • American Experience

Mark Samels, Executive Producer
Nick Fraser, Executive Producer
Robert Stone, Producer