Cammeron’s primary documentary interests are in African American history and contemporary cultural issues. He has been honored by the National Academy of the Arts and Sciences with an Emmy for Still Holding On: The Music of Dorothy Love Coates and the Original Gospel Harmonettes. The documentary tells the story of one of Alabama’s most original and influential voices. Cammeron has also been recognized by The International Film and Video Association, The National Black Programming Consortium, The New York Festival, and The National Education Telecommunications Association.

Creative Works

• APRIL’S  HERO (currently in postproduction) is the story of Robert Reed, the ultimate first responder after the April 27th, 2011 tornado ripped through Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The tornado created a six-mile path of destruction and left 52 dead. Reed pulled twelve of his neighbors from the rubble; however, he lost everything in the storm. He doesn’t want people to be intimidated by his muscular physique from his extensive workout routine or make assumptions about him because he spent time in prison. His heroic act is proof of his true altruistic character.

• NOT MY SON. Not My Son follows Birmingham’s Carolyn Johnson Turner and her Parents Against Violence members over the course of several months. Parents Against Violence Foundation was founded on March 1, 2004, by Johnson Turner as a result of the anguish she experienced when her 20-year old son, Rodreckus DeAndrew Johnson, was shot and killed while attending a birthday party.   In order to cope, she and her members, women who have also lost loved ones to gun violence, are on a personal mission to prevent other deaths.

• ERIC ESSIX: AT HOME.  Jazz is often traced to the Big Easy; but defining its shape is anything but easy. So when producer/director Dwight Cammeron set out to chronicle (in a one-hour documentary) chart-topping, record-breaking jazz guitarist Eric Essix, he ignored the occasional boxy documentary format and instead let Essix loose with his red Gibson hollow-body. As Essix produces Abide with Me, Cammeron visits both the studio and the stage to produce this revealing  album that defies predictability.

• TRYING TIMES:  PERRY COUNTY SCHOOLS.  With 52% of Perry County Alabama’s children living in poverty, the four schools educating those children are equally suffering impoverished hardships. “Trying Times: Perry County Schools,” portrays the humanized effect of Alabama’s legislative pitfalls and repercussions from the September 10^th, 2003, failed Amendment One (Statewide Tax Reform Plan) education budget and the precarious slope of Governor Bob Riley’s 2004-2005 fiscal year budget.

• MOMENTS OF DIGNITY.  Booker T. Washington established the photography department at Tuskegee Institute in the early 1900s, Cornelius Marion Battey was its first instructor, and P.H. Polk was Battey’s protégé. Discover Polk’s vivid, evocative photographs and see the unique perspective of Alabama life created by African American photographers at Tuskegee.

• STILL HOLDING ON: THE MUSIC OF DOROTHY LOVE COATES AND THE ORIGINAL GOSPEL HARMONETTES. Birmingham’s Dorothy Love Coates was a vibrant performer, a prolific composer, and played a major role in shaping contemporary African American sacred music and worship services. During her 50-year career she wrote and published over 300 songs, recorded 20 albums, and her music has been recorded by Mahalia Jackson, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, the Blackwood Brothers, Rev. James Cleveland, Buddy Rich, and the Statesmen Quartet.

• I SHALL NOT BE MOVED: THE LEGACY OF W.C. PATTON.This program profiles 84 year-old civil rights activist, W.C. Patton.  When Alabama banned the NAACP in 1956, Patton became the organization’s national voter education director and conducted crucial registration and education campaigns, before the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

• THE LOWNDES COUNTY FREEDOM PARTY. The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland in 1966, but it traces its roots to rural Lowndes County in Alabama. This program remembers the efforts of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in this forgotten outpost in the civil rights struggle.

• DOG DAYS.  As the state’s longest running professional football franchise in Birmingham. For some young men making the active roster for the Birmingham Arena 2 Football team is an opportunity to play the game they love with the hope of moving up, even if it means starting at the bottom. Dog Days follows four players through one season as they struggle to keep their team and their dreams alive.

• MARTHA’S SEWING ROOM . A popular national “how-to” television series that shows viewers how to make everything from beautiful quilts to heirloom sewing.  The program also includes projects on doll dresses, antique clothing, hand embroidery, crafts, and home decorations.  Martha Pullen, an accomplished seamstress and author is the host of the series. Currently, Martha’s Sewing Room can be seen on 471 PBS stations.

Concentration

• Documentary Production/Sports
• Multi-Camera Productions (Studio and Field)
• Documentary Form and Storytelling
• Contemporary Documentary Production
• General Media Production

Festivals and Screenings

• NOT MY SON, University of Alabama Birmingham School of Public Health, September 2011

• NOT MY SON, Alabama Public Television, Statewide Broadcast Premiere (November 2010)

• NOT MY SON, The Jubilee Film Festival, Selma, Alabama(March 2011), the film festival is a part of the Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee

• NOT MY SON, Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, AL, September 2010

• NOT MY SON, International Black Film Festival of Nashville, TN, September 2010

• NOT MY SON, Urban Suburban Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA, June 2010

• NOT MY SON, DocMiami International Film Festival, July 2010

• LOWNDES COUNTY FREEDOM PARTY, Maysles Institute and Cinema, New York City, August 2010

• NOT MY SON, Woodland Park Church of Christ, Birmingham, AL, January, 2010

• DOG DAYS, 2008 Houston WorldFest Film Festival

• DOG DAYS, 11^th Annual George Lindsey Film Festival, University of North Alabama, 2008

• ERIC ESSIX: AT HOME, 10^th Annual George Lindsey Film Festival, University of North Alabama, Winner Faculty, March 2007

• ERIC ESSIX: AT HOME, Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee, Cinema Jazz, April 2007

• ERIC ESSIX: AT HOME, 11^th Annual Miami Jazz Film Festival, August 2007

Awards

• NOT MY SON,  2010 Urban Film Award, Museum of Urban Art, Birmingham, AL

• NOT MY SON, International Black Film Festival of Nashville (October 2010), Director’s Choice for Socially Relevant Subject

• NOT MY SON, Mid-Atlantic Black Film Festival, Norfolk, VA, Documentary Finalist (October 2010)

• NOT MY SON, KoronisFest, UAB Public School of Health Communication, Documentary Finalist (September 2010)

• NOT MY SON, Urban Suburban Film Festival Philadelphia (June 2010), Best Feature Documentary

• DOG DAYS, 2008 Houston WorldFest Film Festival, Gold Remi

• ERIC ESSIX: AT HOME, 2007 George Lindsey Film Festival, University of North Alabama, Winner Faculty.

• TRYING TIMES: PERRY COUNTY SCHOOLS, Unity Awards In Media 2005, Lincoln University of Missouri.

• STILL HOLDING ON: THE MUSIC OF DOROTHY LOVE COATES AND THE ORIGINAL GOSPEL HARMONETTES,  2000 Emmy,National Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• STILL HOLDING ON: THE MUSIC OF DOROTHY LOVE COATES AND THE ORIGINAL GOSPEL HARMONETTES,  1999 Prized Pieces, International Film and Video Award, The National Black Programming Consortium.

• STILL HOLDING ON: THE MUSIC OF DOROTHY LOVE COATES AND THE ORIGINAL GOSPEL HARMONETTES, 1999  Finalist Award, The New York Festival

• THE ALABAMA EXPERIENCE, Silver Award, 1995 Worldfest Houston Film Festival.

• THE LOWNDES COUNTY FREEDOM PARTY, 1994 Birmingham International Educational Film Festival, Bronze Award, Best of Category Winner, Political Science.

• THE SOUNDS OF FAITH, 1990 National Educational Telecommunications Association Award, Certificate of Merit.