Apograph Productions is a documentary production company based in Broolyn. Since our founding in 2008, Apograph has won a DuPont-Columbia Award, a Writers' Guild of America Award, a Western Heritage Award, a Western Writers of America Award, an IDA Award for Best Documentary, a CINE Special Jury Award, and the company has received several Emmy nominations.
Rob Rapley
Writer - Producer - Director
Rob is the founder of Apograph. He is a writer, director, and producer of historical documentaries. He is currently making a biography of Marian Anderson, the African American singer whose 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial was a culminating moment of the early civil rights movement. He recently won a 2020 duPont-Columbia Award for directing the first episode of Reconstruction: America After The Civil War, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. His previous films received two Emmy nominations, a Writer’s Guild Award and two other nominations, an IDA Award, a Western Heritage Award, a Western Writers of America Award, and a CINE Special Jury Award. A classically-trained musician, Rapley previously worked in the classical music industry, engineering Grammy-winning recordings with some of the greatest classical artists of out time.
Writer - Producer - Director
Rob is the founder of Apograph. He is a writer, director, and producer of historical documentaries. He is currently making a biography of Marian Anderson, the African American singer whose 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial was a culminating moment of the early civil rights movement. He recently won a 2020 duPont-Columbia Award for directing the first episode of Reconstruction: America After The Civil War, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. His previous films received two Emmy nominations, a Writer’s Guild Award and two other nominations, an IDA Award, a Western Heritage Award, a Western Writers of America Award, and a CINE Special Jury Award. A classically-trained musician, Rapley previously worked in the classical music industry, engineering Grammy-winning recordings with some of the greatest classical artists of out time.
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Emily Harrold - Co Producer
Emily is a documentary filmmaker from Orangeburg, South Carolina. Her films have screened at such festivals as the Tribeca Film Festival, the Melbourne International Film Festival, DOC NYC and the Telluride Film Festival. Most recently, she produced and directed the feature documentary, WHILE I BREATHE, I HOPE, which won the documentary Audience Award at the 2018 New Orleans Film Festival and premiered on WorldChannel's AfroPop series in 2019. Harrold is also part of the team behind Discovery's TIGERLAND (Sundance 2019) and National Geographic's Ron Howard-directed REBUILDING PARADISE (Sundance 2020). Harrold is a member of Film Fatales. She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. |
Steven J. Golliday - Editor
Steven is a documentary film editor based in Brooklyn, New York. As an editor, he is driven by a passion for collaborative storytelling and a belief in the power of documentary to add depth and nuance to public conversation. Mr. Golliday’s body of work, which spans vérité and historical-archival styles, has garnered an Emmy Award and festival premieres, including the Sundance Film Festival and DOCNYC. |