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Mable Haddock

Mable Haddock is the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC). She has been the driving force behind NBPC initiatives for over 20 years. Her keen business sense and strong artistic vision have parlayed NBPC into one of the leading and most trusted sources of funding and inspiration for countless African American and African filmmakers.

Since 1990 over six million dollars in NBPC funds have been dispersed to independent filmmakers. Haddock, a graduate of Mercy College, holds a Certificate of Public Broadcast Management from the Wharton School of Business, and brings a hands-on brand of expertise to NBPC. Career highlights include contributing writer for Dialogue Magazine, Co-Producer of The Fannie Lou Hamer Story, Mandela (Blue Ribbon Women in Communications Award), The State of Black America 1984 and 1985, and Black America: Facing the Millennium 1997, and media panelist for Ohio Arts Council, Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

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Mable Haddock is the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) and has led NBPC initiatives for over 20 years; since 1990 NBPC has dispersed over six million dollars to independent filmmakers. A Mercy College graduate who holds a Certificate of Public Broadcast Management from the Wharton School, Haddock contributed to Dialogue Magazine, co-produced The Fannie Lou Hamer Story and Mandela, worked on The State of Black America and Black America: Facing the Millennium (1997), and served as media panelist for arts councils including the NEA.

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