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I am an independent filmmaker whose career spans multiple roles — from serving as director of photography on fiction films to directing and co-cinematographing award-winning works such as Practice, which premiered at Visions du Réel and streamed on the Criterion Channel, and directing experimental films like By Water, which won the BlackStar pitch competition and was broadcast on World Channel and PBS. Themes of grief, liberation, magic, and transformation — alongside questions of sanctuary and communion — recur throughout my work.
I am the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, the Edie and Lew Wasserman Film Fellowship, the Stanley Kramer Fellowship in Film Directing, and the Women in Film Foundation's Loreen Arbus Fellowship in Cinematography. My film Macarrão was shortlisted for a BAFTA and received Jury Prizes at the Zanzibar International Film Festival, the BlackStar International Film Festival, and the Helen Hill Jury Award at the Indie Grits Film Festival. My work has screened at venues and festivals including Sundance, BlackStar International Film Festival, AFI Docs, Hot Docs, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of the Moving Image. Other projects to which I am a key collaborator have screened widely, both domestically and internationally.
SELECTED WORKS, DIRECTING
2024 Liberation
2023 Crossing Over
2022 By Water
2017 Practice
2017 An Exercise in Transfiguration
2017 The Offering
2017 Revelations
2016 El Nazareno, the Black Christ of Portobello
2015 Macarrão
2010 La Receta
2009 My Name is Ani Acta
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY/CINEMATOGRAPHY/CAMERA OPERATION CREDITS
2022 Geechee Kunda – Co-Cinematographer
2018 Bridge/Refrain – Cinematographer, Colorist
2019 Nike Until We All Win (2 commercials, 3 minutes each) – Camera Operator
2017 Palenque – Production Team Co Sound and-Cinematographer
2017 The Offering – Cinematographer
2016 El Nazareno, the Black Christ of Portobello – Cinematographer
2015 All Men are Flowers – Cinematographer
2015 Maria Moderne – Director of Photography
2015 Special Moments with Oksana – Director of Photography
2014 Bound: Africans versus African Americans (feature.) – Co-Cinematographer
2012 Little Creatures – Director of Photography
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Legend (What are These)
Public Facing Project and Film
Black Pearl, in production, feature documentary and public humanities project
Selected Limited Festival Screenings/ Exhibits (By Water and Practice)- 2019-2024
By Water (Director, Editor)
2024 Black Film Festival of Zurich
2024 San Francisco Museum, San Francisco, CA
2024 London International Animation Festival, London, England
2024 Afro ComiCon, Oakland, Ca
2023 Brooklyn Film Festival, New York, NY
2023 International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, Kerala, India
2023 New York International Black Film Festival, New York, NY
2023 San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2023 Hot Docs International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2023 Milwaukee International Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI
2023 Short Encounters International Film Festival, Preveza, Greece
2023 Ouray International Film Festival, Ouray, CO
2023 Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, Mammoth Lakes, CA
2023 Humboldt Film Festival, Humboldt, CA
2023 Aranya Waves Film Festival Kerela, India
2023 Greater Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland, OH
2023 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Hot Springs, AR
2023 Drunken Film Festival, New York, NY
2023 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT
2023 SlamDance Film Festival, Official Selection (Festival Rules: Unable to screen
at both Sundance and SlamDance), Park City, UT
2022 BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA
2022 New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, LA
2022 New Hampshire Film Festival, Portsmouth, NH
2022 Well Read Black Girl Festival, Washington, DC
Practice (Director, Co-Cinematographer, Editor)
2021 Unorthodox Film Festival, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2020 Black Women’s Film Conference, Virtual
2019 Best of Black Star, Syracuse, NY
2019 London Short Film Festival, London, England
2019 Museum of the Moving Image, New York City, NY
2019 Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, ND
2019 Indie Grits Film Festival, Columbia, SC
2019 Las Palmas de Gran, Canaria, Spain
2019 Salem Film Festival, Salem, MA
2019 Black Star Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Concorto Film Festival, Pontenure and Piacenza, Italy
2019 New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, LA
2019 Bushwick Film Festival, New York City, NY