Garland McLaurin is a Peabody award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer, Firelight "Spark Fund" Fellow, and Film Independent "Project Involve" Cinematography Fellow.

Projects include Co-Producer/Director for the two-part BBC documentary "The Black American Fight for Freedom" and Co-Director with award-winning filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris's three-part docuseries "Family Pictures USA." Additionally produced, "POPS," an 11-episode web series exploring fatherhood for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, ITVS Digital, and Black Public Media.

In the past, he served as a grant reader/reviewer for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, Jacquie Jones Memorial Scholarship Fund, Film Independents Spirit Awards Docuseries Award, National Emmy's News and Documentary Awards, INPUT Global Public Television (US Division) Panel and International Documentary Association's Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund.

He co-directed/produced the Peabody winning documentary series, “180 Days A Year Inside An American High School" and "180 Days Hartsville” that aired on PBS. He served as co-cinematographer on Wes Moore’s "Coming Back" documentary series, highlighting veterans, and for award-winning documentary filmmaker Yoruba Richen's "The New Black", which explores the fight for marriage equality in the African American community.

He holds a BA in Radio-TV-Film from Howard University and an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts graduate film school.