About

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New York City, New York
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Lauren Wimbush

Overview

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.

Known for

Production

2025 Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP Production Producer N/A
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2023 Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney Production Producer 58
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2022 The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales Production Co-Producer 58
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2019 Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Production Associate Producer 60
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2016 Black Women in Medicine Production Co-Producer N/A
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2016 Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement Production Co-Producer 58
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Editing

2024 The Debutantes Editing Archival Footage Coordinator N/A
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2023 Stamped from the Beginning Editing Archival Footage Research 58
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2023 The Only Girl in the Orchestra Editing Archival Footage Coordinator 59
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2023 Being Mary Tyler Moore Editing Archival Footage Coordinator 58
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