Rollie Hudson
Rollie Hudson began working in television in the early 1990s in Chicago where he also worked as a freelance print journalist, including reporting from Cuba. He was Series Researcher for the award-winning BBC-Television/Discovery Channel documentary, "The Promised Land," which chronicled the Great Migration of African-Americans out of the Deep South.
Hudson's work on other BBC and UK-based documentary projects, led to him producing and writing episodes of the A&E series, "The Unexplained. " He served as producer/director for the HGTV remodeling series, "New Spaces" and later as Senior Producer at Washington DC's PBS television station, WHUT.
He has directed shoots across the USA and led documentary crews on a number of international shoots, including TV and film work in Mexico, the UK and Iceland.
Hudson has also nurtured his skills as a CGI computer animator, contributing high-end special effects, show title opening graphics and digital re-creations for shows that have aired on The History Channel, A&E, PBS, ABC, Nickelodeon, and other networks.
He has written short and feature film scripts for development as well as developed an episodic science fiction series. He has owned and operated two production companies; and worked as a 3D animator with post-production companies in Los Angeles. Hudson is a former board member of The Crossroads Fund and the Weisbord Foundation in Chicago, and WIFV DC, an industry-networking organization.
Hudson was born in Ohio and attended Cleveland Heights High School where he was two-time Ohio State Champion in the mile run. He won a full scholarship to The University of Michigan where he set school records in track and field, competed in the NCAA championships, was team captain and pledged with the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
While at Michigan, he was the recipient of a Hopewood writing contest award (for fiction) and also reported for and sat on the editorial board of the college paper. He graduated with a degree in Philosophy and was a member of several anti-racist groups which involved anti-apartheid activism.