Maggie Piazza Carroll

Managing the Video Consortium’s Press Play Tour. It is a multi-city initiative, bringing non-fiction storytellers together to foster connection and resilience within the media industry, as well as to learn from one another.

Produced an episode for the Simons Foundation series showcasing Futures Ignite’s work, which empowers young people primarily through community and science projects. Through this initiative, students address issues like racial justice, educational equity and climate justice.

Produce and manage the annual Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. It is the longest running all-doc festival in the country, with nine full days of programming and more recently a regional film forum.

Produced the documentary Ozark Wabi (dir: Molly Wheat & Eliot Peterson). The film follows internationally-recognized potter Stephen Driver as he gathers ceramists from across Arkansas to participate in his annual firing of his anagram wood-kiln. Currently screening at festivals and receiving warm reviews.

Producing on Enough, a film (dir. Kreshnik Jonuzi & Matt Vigil) about civil rights attorney Lee Merritt’s work fighting for families across the US whose loved ones have been killed or harmed by police brutality.

Co-produced Let The Canary Sing, a documentary feature about Cyndi Lauper (dir: Alison Ellwood). World premiere at Tribeca in 2023. Currently streaming on Paramount +.

Produced on PBS American Portrait’s documentary series and participatory storytelling project.

PBS’s American Portrait

Produced on PBS American Portrait’s Covid-19 special episode.

PBS’s American Portrait

Producing and directing Giannina & Lewy. A short, Italian-language film exploring Giannina’s journey living with Lewy body dementia.

Dementia Spring article about the in-progress film.

Managed content for the International Rescue Committee’s informational justice project, Refugee.Info. The project relied heavily on user-generated communication and reporting.

Produced articles, live chats and videos in multiple languages and across several platforms. Covered changing immigration laws, healthcare, social services and local information for refugees, migrants and asylum seekers coming into Europe.

Produced this short directed/produced by Ebony Underwood of WeGotUsNow. First released by Mic and shared widely by individuals and organizations working in criminal justice reform, including Van Jones, Cut50 and DreamCorps.

Update: Since the release of this video several of the participants in this project have since reunited with their parents, yet many of these families remain separated by incarceration. 

Managed field communication for Winrock International. Produced photo essays, videos and exhibits with creative talent around the world.

*Samples feature photos and video by Misty Keasler and Nana Kofi Acquah.

Post production coordinator for The Invisible Extinction. The film follows scientists Gloria Dominguez-Bello and Marty Blaser as they confront an international public health emergency – the loss of our ancestral microbes.

Outreach producer for The (Dis)Honesty Project. Included managing the interactive The Truth Box  exhibit, a traveling story booth that invites participants to share — on-camera — the truth about a lie they’ve told.

Created and produced this participatory video project in partnership with Hour Children Inc and Arkansas Voices, organizations that work with youth and families affected by mass incarceration. 

Teens were asked to share their own stories (aspects of their choosing) however they felt comfortable doing so — video, writing, art or photography.

Associate producer on the CareForce project, bringing attention to the domestic workforce in the United States.

Production coordinator on the film Straight/Curve.

A documentary about body image and the industry leaders challenging society's unrealistic and dangerous standards of beauty.

Produced Jelanii’s Dance with artist, Jelanii Kabita. Choreography and words by Jelanii.

The short was featured on Where Love Is Illegal which shares LGBTIQ stories of discrimination and survival from around the world. Premiered at Outfest Fusion Film Festival. Official selection at Toronto’s Inside Out, Dance On Camera in NYC and the San Francisco Dance Festival.

Facilitated and designed photography projects with participants of a course offered in collaboration with the Josephine Herrick Project. This group, organized by survivors of brain-injury and trauma, wanted to explore expressing themselves through photography. 

Created and produced a photo essay project about the ecosystem in the a Mississippi community. In partnership with a Teach For America program in Mississippi.  

A group of 60 8th-graders documented their interaction with the environment around their school and homes and held a photography showcase for the local community.

Worked as a reporter and anchor at KUAR News, NPR member station in Little Rock, Arkansas. Below are some of the long-form stories.

Children’s Library – Tour of the Central Arkansas Children’s Library.

Interview with David Sedaris - Discussion covering books, touring and life.

Sex Trafficking Survivors - Story produced to bring attention to work being done to combat sex trafficking in Arkansas and throughout the southern U.S.