Mable Haddock

Mable Haddock is the Director of the Producers’ Lab, a mentorship program for independent producers of color. For 25 years, Haddock served as founding President and CEO of the National Black Program Consortium (NBPC).

Haddock provided visionary leadership for NBPC – a national non-profit media arts organization committed to developing compelling programming about the African Diaspora for public television. During her tenure, NBPC helped to nurture and develop the careers of numerous award-winning independent documentary filmmakers. She also supported the development of over 200 hours of work for the national public television schedule, including the four-part series, Matters of Race, and the three-part series for Great Performances, Free To Dance. She co-produced a number of works including The Fannie Lou Hamer Story, Mandela and The State of Black America.

Haddock’s awards and accolades include the Blue Ribbon Women in Communications Award, the New York Women in Film and Video Award, the YWCA Women of Achievement Award, the Leo Award, the Leadership Award from the Urban League, and most recently, the Black Women Film Preservation Project Trailblazer Award. She has written and spoken on black film production, funding and aesthetics, and has served as a panelist on the National Endowment for the Arts, The Humanities Endowment, the Pennsylvania and Ohio Arts Council, and the Point of View Diversity Fund.