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Proper Pronouns Film
Former newspaper photographer Meg Daniels, Director and Co-editor of Proper Pronouns, has been telling people’s stories from around the globe for over 20 years. As a native of Upstate New York, she discovered photography at a young age. Over the course of her career, she became a photo essayist and filmmaker, knowing that it was her responsibility to use her storytelling skills as a platform for raising awareness about social justice issues both well-known and shrouded by secrecy.
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Daniels won multiple National Press Photographer’s Association awards as a staff photographer for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle from 1997 to 2000. She earned a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree in Photographic Arts and Sciences from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1997 and a Master of Science degree in Adult and Community College Education from North Carolina State University in 2005.
Daniels won the Nancy Pollack award in 2005 for scholarly research in her thesis project A Picture is Worth a Thousand Negotiated Meanings: Conversations with Women Regarding Credible, Still Photographs. She has taught photography at the Art Institute of Raleigh-Durham, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and the Friday Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
While a student in the Master of Fine Arts degree in the Documentary Film Program at Wake Forest University, she won the Student Pitch Competition at the 2018 New Orleans Film Festival and received her degree in Master of Fine Arts Degree in Documentary Filmmaking in 2019. Proper Pronouns, her first feature film, aired on North Carolina’s local PBS station in November 2020. Now on the festival tour, the film has screened in multiple film festivals including Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, and Cucalorus Film Festival.
Manie Robinson
Through the past 11 years, Co-producer and co-editor of Proper Pronouns, Manie Robinson has served as a multimedia sports reporter for The Greenville News, a newspaper and digital media company based in Upstate South Carolina. In January of 2015, he accepted the position of columnist and enterprise reporter.
Robinson has uncovered unique stories while covering landmark events, player safety issues, Title IX disputes and the economic and political impact of sports. He is committed to insightful reporting, stirring commentary and striking video.
He has developed seven digital series for The Greenville News website, GreenvilleOnline.Com, including a series of documentary shorts accompanying coverage of the Clemson University football team’s pursuit of a national championship in 2016. Three of those series garnered South Carolina Press Association awards for online video production in 2009, 2011 and 2016.
Robinson also earned multiple SCPA awards for breaking news, enterprise reporting and opinion writing. He co-authored the books Return to Glory and Clemson Crowned, chronicling the 2015 and 2016 Clemson football seasons, respectively.
Robinson was selected for the Gannett Leadership 5.0 Program in 2014. He served on The Greenville News editorial board from 2015 to 2017. He helped shape the newspaper’s stance on local, regional and national issues. He has organized on-campus forums and panels on ethical issues in sports.
Robinson opened his journalism career in 2002 with the Anderson Independent-Mail. In 2005, he accepted a position as a general assignment sports reporter with The Greenville News, during his junior year at Furman University.
Robinson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Furman in 2006. He majored in communication studies with an emphasis in rhetoric and African-American protest.