Traci A. Curry

Co-Director & Producer

ATTICA

Traci A. Curry is a national award-winning producer, director, and writer of powerful stories, with more than two decades of experience in creating compelling, in-depth narratives for multi-media platforms, including long- and short-form documentaries. She also served as a producer for several national cable news shows. Traci’s work has been featured across a variety of networks, including PBS, ESPN, MSNBC, BET, HGTV, TV One, CNN, and ABC.

She is co-director and producer of the upcoming documentary feature, ATTICA, airing on Showtime in the fall of 2021, and selected as the opening night documentary at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.

Traci is also the founder and owner of her production company, B.Free Media, named to honor her hero, pioneering journalist Ida B. Wells and her newspaper, the Memphis Free Speech, which was burned in 1892 following Wells’ groundbreaking exposé of lynching in the South.

A firmly transplanted resident of Brooklyn, New York, Traci received a master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Journalism, and a bachelor’s degree in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania.

Participating Sessions

ATTICA REVISITED

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the largest prison rebellion in U.S. history. On Sept. 9, 1971, over 1,200 inmates at the Attica correctional facility in Attica, NY, seized the yard at the maximum-security prison, took more than three dozen guards and civilian employees hostage, and demanded more humane treatment and better conditions. Emmy-winning director Stanley Nelson and producer and co-director Traci A. Curry bring one of the most...