Two Emmy® Award Nominations for BLACK MOSES RISING and LIBERATION!

Big news for us! It took awhile to unfold yet we are thrilled with the fresh news: BLACK MOSES RISING: Making of the Harriet Tubman Monument in Newark and LIBERATION: Poetry Films Inspired by Harriet Tubman have each earned Emmy® Award nominations in the 2025 News & Documentary section of the renown awards program.

Black Moses Rising is nominated in the “Historical/Cultural – Long Form Content” category in the NY Region. It was produced and directed by Igor Alves.

Yuri Alves, director of Liberation, is personally nominated in the “Director – Short Form Content” craft category.

The Emmy Award nominations are the fifth and sixth, respectively, for DreamPlay Media, which also won two Emmy Awards in 2022 for EMERGE and GRIND.

The 68th Annual NY Emmy® Awards will be presented at the New York Marriott Marquis on October 11, 2025. We know Newark and “Team Tubman” will be in our corner that night: wish us luck!!

Special Thanks

Firstly, to the City of Newark, New Jersey and the Creative Catalyst Fund for trusting us with these projects, and specifically Black Moses Rising consulting producers fayemi shakur and David Andersson, as well as Nina Cooke John, Adebunmi Gbadebo and the dynamic interviewees. Secondly, to the powerful champions and partners for this project: The Mellon Foundation, Audible, Aisha Browne Glover, The Newark Museum of Art, Newark City Parks Foundation, The Newark Library, and the State of New Jersey.

We want to send a shout out to the four poets who starred in Liberation: Bimpé Fageyinbo, Mia X, Kween Moore and Jasmine Mans, as well as Express Newark‘s Community Media Center for making its studio available to us.

Thank you to NJ PBS, Joe Lee and team for believing in these spec films and for distributing them across the PBS network nationwide.

And finally, a deep thank you to the DreamPlay Team for their dedicated talent and work on behalf of these artistically solid, socially important and historically relevant films.