Carol Bash President, Paradox Films

Carol Bash is the President of Paradox Films, a media production company based in Peekskill, NY. She is an award winning documentary filmmaker with over 20 years of experience. Carol also serves as the Program Coordinator of Black Public Media, an organization that funds projects by filmmakers from the African Diaspora for a public television broadcast. Her most recent short film, Morning at Hemlock Hill Farm is on the film festival circuit. In post-production is: Blueprint For My People, a short film that illuminates the African-American experience by lyrically interweaving spoken-word narration of Margaret Walker’s epic poem, “For My People” with contemporary images and rare 19th century cyanotypes (blue photographic prints known as “blueprints”). Her feature documentary, Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band is available on Showtime and was broadcast nationally on public television in 2015.