DIRECTOR, INVESTIGATOR, HOST
2022 NAACP Image Award Nominated above After the Uprising
After the Uprising: The Death of Danyé Dion Jones
About - St. Louis County Black Lives Matter leader Melissa McKinnies finds her 24 year old son hanging from a tree in her backyard in 2018, and podcast journalists Duffy & Nowosielski join her family for a shocking twisty turny 11-episode podcast investigation.
Credits - Companies: Double Asterisk**, NowThis, iHeartMedia, in association with True Stories; Creator, Investigator, Also Host, Editor: John Duffy; Producer: David Cassidy; Executive Producers: Tina Exheros, Brett Kushner, Matt McDonough
CONSULTING PRODUCER
2016 NAACP Image Award Nominated
Miss Sharon Jones!
About - Inspiring theatrically released Dap-Kings musical documentary following legendary soul singer Sharon Jones
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Credits - Companies: Cabin Creek Films, Starz Digital Media, Netflix; Director: Barbara Kopple; Producers: David Cassidy, Barbara Kopple
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Press for Truth
About - The “Jersey widows” made famous in a series of Gail Sheehy-authored New York Post articles grieve their husbands after 9/11 while pushing an inflexible Washington DC to open an investigation into what really went wrong, in this 2006 feature length documentary with a fervent following
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Read Gail Sheehy's New York Post & Vanity Fair pieces about the Jersey Widows
Read Kristen Breitweiser's book Wake Up Call
Credits - Companies: Al Jazeera, Banded Artists, Globalvision; Producers: John Duffy, Kyle Hence; Executive Producers: Ken Ellis, Kyle Hence, Rory O’Connor
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Gumbo Coalition Documentary
Against the backdrop of the chaotic, racially charged Trump years, modern civil rights leaders Marc Morial & Janet Murguia unite to rescue the American dream
Credits - Companies: Cabin Creek Film, Sellers Easton Media, TBA; Directed by: Barbara Kopple; Also Produced by: David Cassidy, Barbara Kopple, Williams Cole, TBA; Executive Producers: Nina Easton, Pattie Sellers, TBA
CREATOR, PRODUCER
Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women Limited Docu-Series
What is behind the epidemic of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women among Native Americans? Our team has been on the ground for two years working with reservation communities seeking answers
Credits - Companies: True Stories, Vox Media, TBA; Directed by: TBA; Also Created & Produced by: John Duffy, Jonathan Hartwig, TBA; Executive Producers: TBA