HBO Max, HBO and Anonymous Content’s AC Studios announced today that they are reigniting the legacy of the Oscar-nominated and Peabody and Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary Eyes On The Prize in multiple formats across the HBO Max and HBO brands. Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Sophia Nahli Allison (A Love Song For Latasha), directs. Starting today, viewers will be able to stream part one of the original pioneering docuseries on HBO Max, followed by the premiere of a one-hour Max Original documentary special, Eyes On The Prize: Hallowed Ground, set to debut August 19.
The documentary special, Eyes On The Prize: Hallowed Ground, honors Henry Hampton’s masterpiece Eyes On The Prize (1987-1990) and conjures ancestral memories, activates the radical imagination and explores the profound journey for Black liberation through the voices of the movement. A portal through time, Eyes On The Prize: Hallowed Ground is a mystical and lyrical reimagining of the past, present, and future.
Eyes On The Prize is the critically acclaimed documentary series on civil rights in America that tells the landmark story of the era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today.
Executive producing the special alongside Patrisse Cullors, Field/House Productions’ Mervyn Marcano and De La Revolución Films’ Melina Matsoukas are Anonymous Content’s Joy Gorman Wettels, Bedonna Smith, Blackside’s Judi Hampton and Sandra Forman, and Sophia Nahli Allison. AC Studios will serve as the studio on the project, which was developed and pitched in partnership with AC’s The Lab. Hampton is a former civil rights worker and the sister of the legendary documentarian and historian Henry Hampton, who created and executive produced the original series and founded Blackside.
HBO is also in production on a new documentary series reflecting on the legacy of the movement covered in the original Eyes On The Prize, and its ties to the present day as we witness history in the making unfold in front of the cameras and behind the scenes. This next iteration of the documentary special will also be available to stream on HBO Max.
To produce the special and docuseries, co-founder and former executive director of BLM, artist, activist, bestselling author, Patrisse Cullors and award-winning storyteller and co-founder of Blackbird, Mervyn Marcano, have joined forces with Blackside, the original producer of Eyes On The Prize and Anonymous Content.
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