About

Apograph Productions is a documentary production company based in Brooklyn, New York. 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, along with several Emmy nominations.

Rob Rapley
Writer

Rob’s recent biography of singer and civil rights icon Marian Anderson was described by the Wall Street Journal as “a moving tribute to a remarkable figure” and by the New York Times as “an insightful documentary...explores the roiling social, racial and political currents that affected Anderson's life and career.” Rob recently won a duPont-Columbia Award for Reconstruction: America After the Civil War, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. He has received three Emmy nominations, a Writer’s Guild Award and two nominations, an IDA Award, a Western Heritage Award, a Western Writers of America Award, and a CINE Special Jury Award.

Emily Harrold
Producer

Emily is a documentary filmmaker from Orangeburg, South Carolina. Her films have screened at festivals including the Tribeca Film Festival, DOC NYC and the Telluride Film Festival. Harrold has produced numerous films for PBS’s American Experience series including The Lie Detector, Flood in the Desert, and Voice of Freedom about singer Marian Anderson. She is part of the team behind Discovery's Tigerland (Sundance 2019) and National Geographic's Ron Howard-directed Rebuilding Paradise (Sundance 2020). She is a part of DOCNYC’s 2021 40 Under 40 Class. Harrold is a member of Film Fatales, Documentary Producers Alliance, and the collective The Filmshop. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and has a MA in Film and Media Studies from Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

Lauren Waring Douglas
Producer

Lauren Waring Douglas, producer, graduated from the University of South Carolina, received her master’s in media management from Columbia College Chicago, and is an alum of the New Orleans Film Society's Southern Producers Lab. From America After Charleston to the critically acclaimed After Sherman, Lauren is dedicated to celebrating the unsung stories of her native South Carolina.

Her current projects include Rooted, a documentary about food justice, and the sci-fi film, E is For:. She comes to Apograph Productions with the intriguing When Porgy Came Home, the untold story of the opera, Porgy and Bess.

Cha Quallis
Editor

Charnelle “Cha” Quallis is a film editor. She began her career editing creative and promotional content for broadcast and digital platforms at NBC Sports & Olympics. But after six years and three emmys, she decided to follow her passion for documentary storytelling. Cha has since worked on a handful of documentaries that re-examine history and highlight the journey and achievements of marginalized individuals. Her work can be found on Netflix, PBS, HBO, and Hulu.