Lauren Wimbush
Productor/a
10
Movies
2
TV Shows
Lauren Wimbush is a producer and archival researcher dedicated to telling compelling and thought provoking non-fiction stories featuring underrepresented characters, communities, and experiences. Lauren has contributed to a range of feature documentaries and long form television projects for networks such as OWN, PBS, BET, and ABC News. Lauren received her B.A. degree in English from Amherst College, and an M.S. degree in Media Management from The New School, specializing in producing and media business and leadership. Lauren served as the Associate Producer on the Emmy Award winning feature Miles Davis: Birth of The Cool, produced by Firelight Films and as the Co-Producer on The American Dream & Other Fairytales, a feature documentary produced by Fork Films which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. In 2023, Lauren was a recipient of the prestigious Catapult Film Fund research grant. Most recently Lauren served as the Producer of the duPont-Columbia Award winning Birthing A Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney for MTV Documentaries and the Archival Producer for The Only Girl in the Orchestra, the 2025 Academy Award wining Best Short documentary for Netflix.
Behind the Camera
Proyecto 1619: Un viaje a la historia de la esclavitud
Archival Footage Coordinator
Oprah's Master Class
Archival Footage Research
The Birth of Cool: La historia de Miles Davis y su música
Associate Producer
Marcados al nacer
Archival Footage Research
Mary Tyler Moore: La Dama de la TV
Archival Footage Coordinator
La única mujer de la orquesta
Archival Footage Coordinator
Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP
Productor
Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement
Co-Producer
The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales
Co-Producer
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
Productor
The Debutantes
Archival Footage Coordinator
Black Women in Medicine
Co-Producer