Oliver Stone, Michael Moore, Spike Lee, Steven Spielberg, Kasi Lemmons, Paul Greengrass, Jane Campion, and a list of documentary filmmakers too long to name.
Awards
"Silent Choices" WINNER - Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking; 2007 Roxbury Film Festival; WINNER - Best Documentary, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival
Professional Affiliations
NY Women in Film and Television, IFP, Black Documentary Collective, Int'l Documentary Association
Faith's Interests
General
film (DUH!!), music (anything except country-western), modern art, politics/social justice, tennis, pilates, DA BEARS!!!
Music
Radiohead, NIN, D'Angelo, Jill Scott, Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Justin Timberlake...the list is too long and all over the place for me to name them all.
Movies
"Network" (still the king!), "JFK," "Hoop Dreams (the film that inspired me to do this for a living!)," "Election (sorely underrated)," "Breaking the Waves," "Deep Cover," "Platoon," any film by Paul Greengrass (don't sleep on him. He is the SHIZNIT!!)
Television
"24," "The Sopranos," "The Shield," "Friday Night Lights (the best show on TV right now - no joke. Watch it, PLEASE!!!)," any good documentary that's airing.
Books
"The Catcher in the Rye," "Things Fall Apart," "The Good Society (R.I.P. J.K. Galbraith)" "The Bluest Eye," "Bitchfest" (a shameless plug - my sister has a great essay in the book on being a black feminist metalhead).
Heroes
I don't have "heroes" because all humans have flaws and that's too much pressure and expectation to put on one person. However, people I admire: Tutu, Paul Robeson, all of the unsung sisters of the civil rights movement-especially Ella Baker and Daisy Bates, Sean Penn (who frequently risks damaging his career to stand up for what's right), everyone who helped and continue to help Hurricane Katrina victims, same for those who risked/gave their lives on 9/11, my mother and grandmother.
About me: I'm an independent filmmaker tackling both narrative and documentary films. My heart is in New York, but for now I'm based in Chicago. I'm making films that challenges the status quo and tells stories that you won't see or hear from anyone else. And I refuse to be boxed in by race or gender. Free your mind, and the rest will follow...
My new documentary is called "Silent Choices" and it's about abortion and its impact on the lives of African American women.
"Silent Choices" is now on sale as an educational DVD from New Day Films! To order, go to www.newday.com/films/SilentChoices.html or call 888-367-9154.
Who I'd like to meet: Short list: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, any member of Radiohead, Stephen Colbert, Kiefer Sutherland.
Short list of people I want to meet and work with: Sean Penn, Kate Winslet, Oliver Stone, Andre Braugher, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Cate Blanchett
I encourage you to support the campaign to incorporate a comprehensive study of racism into the American academic system, and make it a prerequisite for graduation; by writing your local and state representatives, the dept. of education in your state, and also by writing to the Attorney General at the US Justice Department and President Barack Obama expressing your endorsement of this endeavor.
Get your copy of ARC AND HUE at Willow Books Poetry and Aquarius Press online at 20% off before 9/1/09. Available on Amazon soon.
ARC AND HUE will be available at the NYC book party on Sunday, Sept. 20, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012. Between Houston & Bleecker, near the F & 6 trains.
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