Academy Award winning producers/directors Alan and Susan Raymond (I Am A Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School) are among America’s most influential documentary filmmakers working today. Recognized by the IDA as Lifetime Achievement Trailblazers for directors of the PBS cinema verite series An American Family that gave birth to Reality TV as well as their Emmy, Peabody and DuPont Award winning The Police Tapes that opened the doors for small format video on network television. The Raymonds have produced award winning social issue documentaries on education, religion, criminal justice and war reporting in Rwanda as well as Elvis ’56 deemed by Rolling Stone Magazine as the very best film on Elvis.
