Apograph Productions is a documentary production company based in Brooklyn. 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, and a CINE Special Jury Award. The company has also received several Emmy nominations.

Rob Rapley
Writer - Producer - Director
Rob is the founder of Apograph. His current project explores the hopes, violence, and corruption bound up in the creation of modern Los Angeles. The story - the setting for the film noir classic, Chinatown - culminates in the worst civil engineering catastrophe in American history: the St Francis Dam disaster. 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 two Emmy nominations, a Writer’s Guild Award, an IDA Award, a Western Heritage Award, a Western Writers of America Award, and a CINE Special Jury Award. A trained musician, Rob previously worked in the classical music industry, engineering Grammy-winning recordings with some of the great classical artists of our time.
Writer - Producer - Director
Rob is the founder of Apograph. His current project explores the hopes, violence, and corruption bound up in the creation of modern Los Angeles. The story - the setting for the film noir classic, Chinatown - culminates in the worst civil engineering catastrophe in American history: the St Francis Dam disaster. 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 two Emmy nominations, a Writer’s Guild Award, an IDA Award, a Western Heritage Award, a Western Writers of America Award, and a CINE Special Jury Award. A trained musician, Rob previously worked in the classical music industry, engineering Grammy-winning recordings with some of the great classical artists of our time.
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. She is part of DOC NYC’s 2021 40 under 40 list. Most recently, she produced and directed the documentary short, Meltdown In Dixie, which won the Academy Award qualifying Best Short Award at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in 2021. Harrold produced Apograph’s Voice of Freedom documentary about singer Marian Anderson for PBS’s American Experience series. 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 and the Documentary Producers Alliance. 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. |