Louis Massiah is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, a media arts center that provides production workshops to community groups and emerging media makers. As an educator and institution builder, Massiah has developed production methodologies that assist first time makers author their own stories, including the Precious Places Community History project, a collection of 150 collaborative documentaries; Muslim Voices of Philadelphia; and The Great Migration – A City Transformed. He is the artistic director of the North Philadelphia History Festival.
Massiah’s documentaries, include TCB – the Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing, The Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets, W.E.B. Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices, The Bombing of Osage Avenue, Cecil B. Moore, two films for the Eyes on the Prize II series, and A is for Anarchist, B is for Brown. In addition to teaching at Scribe, Massiah has been a visiting artist and taught at Swarthmore College, the University of Pennsylvania, City College of New York and at MIT. He is currently an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.