INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST + FILMMAKER BROOKLYN, NY
REPRESENTATION
FILMOGRAPHY
STILL HERE (Al Jazeera), 2020
7 min approximately, virtual reality piece, writer-director
Official selection of Sundance Film Festival New Frontiers, 2020
RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS (HBO), 2019
30-41 min, television sketch comedy show, writer-director-editor-associate producer Peabody Award Winner, 2019
PIU PIU, 2018
10 min, narrative short, writer-director-editor
Official selection and nominated for Best Short, Slamdance Film Festival, 2018
Official selection and nominated for Best Short, Blackstar Film Festival, 2018
Official selection and nominated for Best Short, AFI Film Festival, 2018
Official selection, Urbanworld 2018
Official selection and Winner (Best Cinematography), Tacoma Film Festival, 2018
AND NOTHING HAPPENED, 2016
16 min, narrative short, writer-director-editor-actor
Official selection at Slamdance Film Festival, 2016
Official selection at bamcinemafest, 2016
Grand Jury Prize Nominee for Best Short Film, LA Film Festival 2016
Recipient of the Best Director Award for Short Narrative Film, Tacoma Film Festival, 2016
Best Performance + Best Short Film Award, NO BUDGE, 2018
Best Social Issue Runner Up, SHORT OF THE WEEK, 2018
EARL SWEATSHIRT: NOWHERE, NOBODY, 2019
8 min, music video short, co-director
BROOKLYN IS MASQUERADING AS THE WORLD, 2015
2-5 min, episodic documentary, co-director-producer-cinematographer
Aired on Brooklyn’s public broadcast channel, BRIC
ABSENT MATTER, 2015
16 min video installation/projection design
Commissioned by MacArthur Genius Kyle Abraham of Abraham.In.Motion Premiered at the Joyce Theater in New York City.
SOUNDTRACK 63, 2016
2 hour video civil rights movement archival projection design
Commissioned by soul science lab.
Premiered at SXSW 2017
The Apollo
Slated to premiere at Lincoln Center for educational programming November 2018
EXHIBITIONS
AND NOTHING HAPPENED
Screened at the Brooklyn Museum as part of We Wanted a Revolution exhibition presented by the Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 2017
AND NOTHING HAPPENED
Screened in a black box gallery theater as part of The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Women’s Art in the U.S. presented at Shiva Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York City, 2018
AND NOTHING HAPPENED
Screened as part of the Studium Generale Rietveld Academie panel TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE: FABULATING ALTERNATIVE IMAGINARIES IN ART AND LIFE at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2019
PIU PIU
Screened at Crossing The Line Short Film Program as a part of the MoMA + Rooftop Films Summer Series, Manhattan, 2019
FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES AWARDED
United States Artist Fellowship, Ford
Foundation grant recipient 2021
MacDowell Fellowship 2020
Art Matters Fellowship and grant 2017
Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive Fellowship and grant 2017
Rooftop Films/ADRIENNE SHELLEY FOUNDATION PRODUCTION GRANT 2017
Villa Lena Artist Residency, Tuscany, Italy, 2017
Catwalk Institute Art Residency Hudson,New York, 2016
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Virginia, 2015 and 2020
Headlands Artist in Residence (Collaborator) 2014
Reelworks Teen Filmmaking Narrative Lab Instructor and Artist in Residence, 2016-2017 School of Making Thinking Immersion + Virtual Reality Lab Co-facilitator, 2017-2018
Visiting Teaching Artist, Swarthmore, 2017 and 2020
POSITIONS
Story Editor, Producer, BETTY (HBO), Season 2, Post-Production Currently, 2021
Story Editor, BETTY (HBO), Season 1, 2020
Producer, Staff Writer, I’M A VIRGO (Amazon), Projected for Production, 2022
Producer, Pilot Director, HOW TO MAKE LOVE TO A BLACK WOMAN... (SHOWTIME), 2019
Staff Writer, Director, Editor, Actor, RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS (HBO), 2019
EDUCATION
Howard University ‘05-07
Brooklyn College (C.U.N.Y.) )B.A. in Print Journalism 2011