"Louis Massiah is the founder and executive director of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, a media arts center that provides low-cost workshops and equipment access to emerging videomakers and community organizations. At Scribe he has facilitated and executive produced over 300 documentaries, documenting issues and concerns facing urban communities. A current project, eSights, eSounds, has supported community groups and individual artists in using various new media platforms as creative tools to explore community issues. As a documentary filmmaker, Massiah's award winning works include W.E.B. Du Bois - a Biography in Four Voices, The Bombing of Osage Avenue and Louise Alone Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words. Currently he is producing Haytian Stories, exploring the history of the 200 year relationship between the United States and Haiti. A MacArthur Foundation fellow, Massiah has also received awards from Columbia-DuPont, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Global Village Documentary Festival, the National Black Programming Consortium, and an Emmy. Massiah received a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.S. in from MIT. In addition to teaching at Scribe, he has been an artist-in-residence and on faculty at City College of New York, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, American University and Haverford College. "
