Arleigh Prelow is currently completing Howard Thurman, a widely anticipated feature-length documentary on Dr. Howard Thurman (1899-1981), one of the preeminent spiritual and intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Howard Thurman is a production of INSPIRIT COMMUNICATIONS AND FILM, a company Arleigh founded in 1994. In making Howard Thurman, Arleigh has conducted and directed research of archives and stock footage houses throughout the US and the world. (To read an interview with Arleigh about the film, please click HERE.)
Arleigh’s recent work includes production research for the motion picture, The Great Debaters. Arleigh also contributed an essay “The Significance of Living” in the newly published anthology, “Originally Blessed.”
Arleigh's production credits include Howard Thurman: Spirit of the Movement, a short documentary for the newly opened, Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. She also produced and directed research for the award-winning In Search of the Sacred for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. This presentation combined stirring music with rare archival visuals to explore the development of African American sacred music. Arleigh, in addition co-produced and researched the award-winning, Ain’t You Gotta Right Civil Rights Video Wall, a permanent exhibit at the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles.
For Blackside, Inc. in Boston, Arleigh assisted in developing and researching new projects including Songs of My People, a proposed film to interweave the history of African Americans with stories of their music. At WETA-TV, Washington, DC, she was an associate producer of the PBS series, From Jumpstreet: A Story of Black Music. For the series, Arleigh researched and acquired uncommon historical images and archival visuals and music of African American entertainers and musicians. While at Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta, Arleigh's production of Sweet Auburn, an archivally rich story of Black Atlanta’s most memorable street, won a regional Emmy award. At KPIX-TV in San Francisco, Arleigh researched visuals and wrote historical segments for All Together Now and produced segments for Evening Magazine. She also researched and wrote historical segments for Dialogue, a weekly public affairs program on Atlanta's WSB-TV.
In Boston, Arleigh worked with acclaimed documentary filmmaker Orlando Bagwell, and his ROJA Productions. While at ROJA, she managed production for New Worlds, New Forms, part of PBS's acclaimed Dancing series; researched and developed the PBS documentary on Frederick Douglass; and managed company operations.
In completing Howard Thurman, Arleigh has presented the documentary at institutions throughout the United States, including Morehouse College, Harvard University, the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, San Francisco, The Tabernacle on Martha’s Vineyard, Agape International Spiritual Center, the Boston Museum of African American History, Unity Church for Creative Living, and the Ritz Theatre and LaVilla Museum, Jacksonville, Hartford Seminary, and Trinity Church Boston.
Arleigh is a native of Los Angeles and earned her BA in Communications and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. She has served as a Teaching Fellow at the DoubleTake Summer Documentary Institute. Arleigh is listed in Who's Who Among Black Americans and Who's Who Among Executives and Professionals. Arleigh Prelow is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the mother of two adult daughters, Alison, of Atlanta, GA, and Kara, of Boston, MA..
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