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Tom Casciato is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker and film & television executive. A director, writer and producer, he has created critically acclaimed nonfiction television programs that have appeared on PBS, ABC, NBC, TBS and Showtime. Along with directing Two American Families 1991-2024 with Kathleen Hughes, he is a Special Correspondent for PBS NewsHour, specializing in profiles of musicians and their work. In 2023 he was a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, producing and hosting the Thousand Roads podcast series, in which he interviewed fellow doc filmmakers about the intersection of documentary film and journalism. He directed...
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