Tracy Strain

Tracy Heather Strain, a two-time Peabody Award-winning and Emmy-nominated filmmaker, explores stories about the ways diverse peoples have experienced life in the United States. A recipient of this year’s Chicken & Egg Award, Tracy won an NAACP Image Award for Motion Picture Directing for Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and made its television debut on American Masters. Tracy has conducted archival research and explored ways to organize the material since she first worked at Blackside in the early 90s. She is presently developing a new film for American Experience as well as her independent hybrid documentary, Survival Floating, investigating African-descended peoples’ relationships with swimming. The Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, Tracy also teaches documentary filmmaking in Wesleyan University’s College of Film and Moving Image.