I’m 10 years old at my mom’s place in Milwaukee. It’s 1964 and Black people are still "colored" and they’re not riding in limousines unless their kinfolk have just died. I press my knees into the cold linoleum and stare into our black-and-white TV. My mouth falls open when Sidney Poitier wins the academy award for Best Actor. I cried tears of joy for him and for the hope and possibility that moment represented. It changed who I thought I could be. Sidney Poitier came to this world to move it, to shake it, to change it, not only as an actor, but as an activist and a wisdom teacher. He inspires me today as much as he did when I was a 10-year-old girl. It’s one of the great honors of my life to produce the documentary #Sidney, premiering September 23 in theaters and streaming on @appletvplus.