Ilana Trachtman is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her latest film, Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round, is about the first organized civil rights protest in US history. It will be out in 2025.
Ilana Trachtman
By Ilana Trachtman
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