Starting in 2008, Greenfield-Sanders directed and produced "The Black List: Volumes 1, 2 and 3". "Volume 1" premiered at The Sundance Film Festival. All three films aired on HBO. Portraits taken by Greenfield-Sanders for the project were first exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2008, then at Brooklyn Museum, the Hartford Atheneum, and the Paley Center in New York City and Los Angeles. From October 27, 2011 to April 22, 2012, all fifty images from the series were shown at The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. "The Black List" won an NAACP Image Award for Best Documentary.