Charles Burnett is a MacArthur Award-winning American filmmaker.  Major films include Killer of Sheep, The Glass Shield, To Sleep with Anger, NightJohn, The Wedding, The Annihilation of Fish, and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation.  He is also the co-writer and director of Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property, a film co-written and co-produced by Dean Kenneth S. Greenberg, College of Arts and Sciences.