Aaron Greer - Executive Producer, Writer, and Director
Aaron Greer is a professor in the Department of Telecommunication and Film
at the University of Alabama, where he teaches film and video production.
He has produced and directed documentary, narrative and experimental films,
which have been screened in film festivals nationally and internationally.
His short film Not Color Blind, Just Near Sighted, distributed nationally
by Big Film Shorts, was a 2003 University Film and Video Association Award
Winner.
Greer was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He earned his BA in history
from Washington University in St. Louis and his MFA in Film and Media Arts
from Temple University in Philadelphia. Aaron has worked for a repertory
theater company, taught high school social studies, and served as a documentary
researcher for Henry Hampton (producer of the award- winning Eyes on the
Prize series).
No matter the genre in which he works, Greer is particularly concerned with
depicting the lives of African Americans – especially children and
youth – in a more authentic way than is common in American cinema.