TRAFFIC STOP

“Traffic Stop” is a short animated documentary. Alex Landau, an African American man, was raised by his adoptive white parents to believe that skin color didn’t matter. But when Alex was pulled over by Denver police officers one night in 2009, he lost his belief in a color-blind world—and nearly lost his life. Alex tells his mother, Patsy Hathaway, what happened that night and how it affects him to this day. (Source: StoryCorps)

Directed by: Gina Kamentsky & Julie Zammarchi
Executive Producers: Donna Galeno, Dave Isay & Lizzie Jacobs
Produced by: Rachel Hartman & Roxana Petzold
Audio Produced by: Jud Esty-Kendall
Supervising Sound Recordist: Daniel Sitts
Animation, Design & Production: Gina Kamentsky & Julie Zammarchi
Animation Assistant: Temah Nelson
Production Intern: Jeremy Gordon
Original Music: Joshua Abrams
Music Performed by: Joshua Abrams, Marquis Hill, Emmett Kelly & Adam Thornburg
Music Mixed by: Joshua Abrams & Neil Strauch
Publisher: Lospotreros 

Funding Provided by
Corporation for Public Broadcasting 
W.K. Kellogg Foundation 

In partnership with
POV 
NPR
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress