Documentary film producer Orlando Bagwell will give a lecture "Celebrating Memory Through Documentary Film," at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 19, in the Olin Science Center, Room 01, at Colby College. Bagwell most recently produced Hymn, a tribute to modern dancer, choreographer and director Alvin Ailey, founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. A showing of Hymn will accompany the lecture. The event is part of Colby's Black History Month celebration.

Bagwell's credits include Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery, a PBS documentary on slavery from Jamestown to the Civil War. He is the head of his own company, ROJA Productions, based in Boston. Bagwell previously was vice president of Blackside Inc., where he supervised the 1993 documentary series The Great Depression. His credits include two Eyes on the Prize episodes ("Mississippi: Is This America?" and "Ain't Scared of Your Jails"), two 1994 PBS specials (Frederic Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History and Malcolm X: Make It Plain) and "Roots of Resistance: The Underground Railroad" for The American Experience in 1990, among others.