Fred Ward - Luminary Page

Fred is the kind of partner who doesn't just watch a film and nod approvingly. He takes it somewhere. He brings organizations, builds coalitions, creates the conditions for a film to do what it was meant to do: open something in the world, making other worlds possible.

His work both appearing in and organizing around Dispatches from Cleveland and on bringing Paint Me a Road Out of Here and Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison to Cleveland audiences, represents the very best of what Aubin's Impact pillar aspires to be. Films do their work when people like him are in the room, creating the connective tissue between story and action.

We thank him for being that person, over and over again.