Carol Bash is the Founder and President of Paradox Films, a media production company based in Peekskill, New York. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with over 25 years of experience.

Her current project, Blueprint For My People, is a visual poem that interweaves spoken-word narration of Margaret Walker’s poem, “For My People” with contemporary images and rare 19th century cyanotypes (blue photographic prints known as “blueprints”). She also wrote, produced, edited and co-directed (with Christopher Fox) the music video Windows, which is a song on Future One's latest album, Do We Need Another Psycho. Her short film, Morning at Hemlock Hill Farm which showcases the natural beauty of a local farm, screened at film festivals and art exhibitions in the Hudson Valley, New York area. Her feature documentary, Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band, on this renowned yet unsung jazz genius, is currently available on Kanopy.

-Carol is an Organizer/Programmer of the annual Peekskill Film Festival. She is a Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellow and a former Black Public Media artist-in-residence. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, New York State Council on the Arts, The Ford Foundation, Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Black Public Media, amongst others.

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FILM

Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band

PROGRAM AFFILIATION  

Documentary Lab

COHORT YEAR  

2009

WEBSITE

carolbash.com

INSTAGRAM

@bashcarol