Bianca M. White is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and photographer from Philadelphia . In 2002, she received an M.A. in Mass Communications from the University of Florida ’s Documentary Institute and a B.A. in Film and Media Arts from Temple University in 2000. Some of Bianca’s film credits include: Remove Nigger from My Name, Pandora’s Box, Rising on the Hill, Justice For Her and the award winning Ocoee: Legacy of the Election Day Massacre. Bianca has also worked for HBO Documentaries, Viacom’s MTV, Rainforest Films.

Bianca, along with Dawn-Elissa Fischer, is co-producing Nihon Style, a documentary about the influence of Hip Hop on Japanese youth for Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute of Black Culture Hip Hop Archive. Additionally, Bianca is co-producing Brixton and Babylon, directed by Sandra Krasa. Brixton and Babylon is a documentary about the 1981 Brixton, London riots.

Bianca’s most demanding project by far is directing Eye of the Eldest, a documentary about her youngest sister’s quest to make an Olympic swim team, set for completion in late 2008. In February 2008, Bianca completed Justice For Her, (www.justiceforher.org ) a documentary about the wrongful incarceration of a young woman accused of capital murder and drug dealing.

Currently, Bianca is the Director of Youth Media Programs at EducationWorks, Inc. (EW) a non-profit that provides supplemental educational programming to urban areas characterized by high rates of poverty and illiteracy. Bianca is also Board Chair of the Asia Adams Save Our Children Foundation.

Having shown her work across the United States , Japan , Brazil , the United Kingdom , and China , Bianca aspires to direct narrative features in addition to her continuing documentary work.