FILMOGRAPHY
2018  Fucked Like a Star (8 min), director          
2017  ESSENCE's Black Girl Magic: Gio (3 episodes)
2016  Babay, Papa Rose! (15 min) (in post-production) writer, director
2015  MACHO (15 min), dir. Faren Humes, producer
2014  La Tierra de los Adioses (26 min) director, DP
          Seventh Grade (11 min) writer, director
2013  La Bolsa (5 min) director, DP    
   

SCREENINGS
2020 Fucked Like a Star, Queens Drive-In
2019  Fucked Like a Star, Edinburgh International Film Festival
          Fucked Like a Star, Ann Arbor Film Festival
          Fucked Like a Star, Atlanta International Film Festival
          Fucked Like a Star, Indie Grits Film Festival
2018  Fucked Like a Star, Tacoma International Film Festival
          Fucked Like a Star, Third Horizon Film Festival
          Fucked Like a Star, New Orleans Film Festival
          Fucked Like a Star, Smithsonian African American Film Festival
          Fucked Like a Star, Bushwick Film Festival
          Fucked Like a Star, Denver Film Festival
          Fucked Like a Star, Citizen Jane Film Festival
          Fucked Like a Star, Blackstar Film Festival
          Fucked Like a Star, BAMCinemaFest
          MACHO, Tacoma International Film Festival
2017  Seventh Grade, Reel Her In, Sony
          Seventh Grade, ASPiRE Channel
          Seventh Grade, Issa Rae Production's Short Film Sundays
          ESSENCE’s Black Girl Magic: Gio, Brooklyn Museum
          MACHO, New Orleans Film Festival
2016  MACHO, BlackStar Film Festival
          MACHO, Afrikana Film Festival
          La Tierra de los Adioses, An Open Letter to NYC, Maysles Cinema
          Seventh Grade, An Open Letter to NYC, Maysles Cinema
          Seventh Grade, Berlin Feminist Film Week
2015  Seventh Grade, North Carolina Black Film Festival  
          Seventh Grade, Rebels With A Cause Film Festival         
2014  Seventh Grade, Austin Film Festival
          Seventh Grade, New Orleans Film Festival
          Seventh Grade, Urbanworld Film Festival
          Seventh Grade, NBC Universal Short Film Festival
          Seventh Grade, New Voices in Black Cinema
          Seventh Grade, BlackStar Film Festival
          Seventh Grade, Athens International Film + Video Festival
          Seventh Grade, Afrikana Film Festival Noir Cinema Series
          Seventh Grade, Hayti International Film Festival
          Seventh Grade, Cinema Club Volume XXXV
          La Tierra de los Adioses, Oaxaca Film Festival
          La Tierra de los Adioses, Festival Internacional de Cine en el Desierto
2013  La Bolsa, Oaxaca Film Festival
          La Bolsa, San Diego Latino Film Festival
          Chicago of Miami, A3C Hip Hop Film Festival


PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCES
2020 Black Women's Film Conference, New Negress Film Society, Virtual
2019  Black Women's Film Conference, New Negress Film Society, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
          SCREEN: BlackStar Film Festival at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
          Haïti-Vidéo-Poèmes: courts films poétiques et sensoriels, Brussels, Belgium
2018  BlackStar “Best of the Fest,” Colgate University, Hamilton NY
          Sexual Politics Fabulated Pasts, Speculative Futures, Brown University, Providence, RI
          American Fringe, La Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France
          The Future is Afro-Femme, Institute of Contemporary Art, Richmond, VA
          BAM Women at Work: The Domestic is Not Free, BAM Cinema, Brooklyn, NY
2017  Black Queer Brooklyn on Film, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
          An Evening with the New Negress Film Society, Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY             
          Demystifying the Process of Commissioned Work, Art is Labor, Queens, NY
          Sanité Bélair Women's Empowerment Series, New York University, NY, NY
          Feminist Film Festival, Layered Gaze Film Festival, NY, NY
          New Negress Film Society: I am a Negress of Noteworthy Talent, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
2016  In Real Life: Film & Video, Screenings / "How To Love a Watermelon Woman," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA  
          Radical Black Magicalism: Black Girl Magic & All That Good 'ish, Afrikana Independent Film Festival, Richmond, VA
          Black Radical Imagination: In Conversation, Cooper Union, NY, NY
          Guest Speaker, YWCA NYC Potential to Power Girls Symposium, NY, NY         
          The Black Women's Film Festival, South Dallas Cultural Center (Texas), Dallas, TX
          New Negress Film Society Short Film Program, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY
2015  New Negress Film Society Short Film Program, Indiana University Cinema, Bloomington, IN
          Explorations: Irresistible Resistance, Made in NY Media Center, Brooklyn, NY


AWARDS/ HONORS
2024 BlackStar Luminary Award
2022 1791, SFFILM Rainin Development Grant
2021  Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship
2020. 1791, SFFILM Rainin Screenwriting Fellowship
2019  Fucked Like a Star, Experimental Grit Award, Indie Grits Film Festival
2018  Fucked Like a Star, Best Experimental Film, Blackstar Film Festival
          Fucked Like a Star, Favorite Experimental Film, Blackstar Film Festival
          Fucked Like a Star, Special Jury Mention New Orleans Film Festival
          Jerome Foundation Travel Grant
          Bronx Council on the Arts BRIO Arts Award
          Artist in Residence, Haiti Cultural Exchange
2015  Babay, Papa Rose!, Jerome Foundation Film & Media Grant
2014  Seventh Grade, ESSENCE Discovery Award
          Seventh Grade, NBC Universal Finalist
          Seventh Grade, 2nd Place Short North Carolina Black Film Festival


EDITING
2024  Monuments Are Here (3 min), dir, Nuotama Bodomo, Created by Solange
           The Debutantes (86 min), dir. Contessa Gayles
2023  Negra, Yo Soy Bella  (18 min), dir. Vashni Korin
           Over the Wall (18 min), dir. Krystal Tingle
           Seeking: Mapping Our Geechee Story (15 min), dir. Julie Dash
2021   Centropy (24 min), dir. Deana Lawson
           Killing in Thy Name (15 min), dir. The Ummah Chroma
           For Our Girls: A Conversation with Black Women, PBS (11 min) dir. Michèle Stephenson & Imani Dennison
2020  Amyra León: Strange Grace (15 min) dir. Malika Zouhali-Worrall
           Damon Davis: Apologue for the Darkest Gods (12 min) dir. Elissa Blount Moorhead
2019   T (10 min) dir. Keisha Rae Witherspoon
           Back and Song (20 min, four-channel) dir. Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young 
           Untitled (2 min) dir. Bradford Young
           Frame by Frame (5 episodes) dir. Yvonne Michelle Shirley
           Liberty Director's Cut (18 min) dir. Faren Humes
2018  James Reese Europe and the Absence of Ruin (58 min) dir. Jason Moran
          Untitled (M*A*S*H), (26 min), dir. Simone Leigh


TEACHING
Hofstra University, Adjunct Professor, Foundations of Radio, Television, Film & New Media
DCTV, Young Women of Cinema Educator
Maysles Documentary Center, Film Educator
BRIC Arts Media, Media Educator
Comprehensive Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, PSA Film Specialist


EDUCATION
MFA Documentary Studies and Production, Hofstra University
BS Journalism, University of Florida