Nailah Ife Sims

The Meaning of Monuments (working title)

Nailah Ife Sims is a documentary creative producer and director with over a decade and a half of experience in a diverse range of non-fiction TV series, programs, and documentary films. Her latest project, Great Migrations: A People on the Move, a 4-part Dr. Henry Louis Gates helmed documentary series, premiered in January 2025 on PBS. She’s most known for her work as one of the producers of the Emmy-nominated six-part Netflix/ Fusion docuseries Who Killed Malcolm X?, which helped exonerate two wrongly convicted men in 2021. Over the years, she’s helped produce and develop dozens of acclaimed nonfiction films, series, and programs for Netflix, Hulu, HBO, History, CNN, AMC, Discovery, FX, FUSE, and more, including daytime talk shows The Oprah Winfrey Show and Anderson Live (with Anderson Cooper). She’s based in Brooklyn, hails from Chicago, and holds pride in her African American and Haitian American roots.