Celia Carey

Award-winning filmmaker Celia Carey developed her storytelling skills in New York City, where she received her M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. After thirteen years of working on films around the world for National Geographic, Discovery, the BBC, and other major broadcasters, Celia returned to her Alabama roots to focus on stories about Southern history and culture. In the last four years her films have received 9 Emmy nominations and 5 Emmy Awards, including: three Emmy awards for projects that she directed and produced, and two Emmys for films that she executive-produced. Other recent awards for films she directed and produced include: a Cine Golden Eagle; a NETA award for best arts film nationwide; the Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival; an audience choice award from the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival; best cultural issues film from the CINE International Film Festival; and a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. In separate years, PBS selected two of Carey's films-Mr. Dial Has Something to Say and The Quiltmakers of Gee's Bend-as one of seventeen films to represent the United States at the International Public TV conference. Two films that Celia produced air nationally on PBS: "The Quiltmakers of Gee's Bend," which she directed, and "Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness for Change," which she executive-produced. Celia is also a fellow international of The Explorers Club, a professional society whose members are dedicated to scientific research and exploration.