About this Event
This festival is brought to you by the Center for Black Diaspora at DePaul University. All film screenings are also co-sponsored by the Department of International Studies and the Department of African & Black Diaspora Studies.
Brandon Haynes is an award-winning narrative and commercial cinematographer and director based in Brooklyn, NY. He started his creative journey as a photographer in 2009 and fell in love with cinematography after attending Denver’s SeriesFest in 2016. Teaching himself the rules and tricks of the trade, he now blends the worlds of music, fashion, and sports with his love for TV and cinema. His drive to continually perfect his craft, and capture a striking balance of color and shadow, has allowed him to shoot for a diverse array of clients including Hennessy, Uptown Magazine, Adidas, Essence Magazine, BET, Volkswagen, Doordash, Facebook, and Google. In 2020, he made his narrative directorial debut with the short film "Carol Crawford".
ABOUT THE FILM, LEGACY
Legacy is a short documentary that provides an intimate look into the life of an artist whose work has had a significant impact on society.
Cai Thomas is a Liberty City native whose curiosity was born and nurtured in the “Moonlight” neighborhood. She’s a filmmaker/DP interested in stories at the intersection of identity, self-determination, and location. Cai is a NeXt Doc, Sundance Ignite, Sisters in Cinema, Double Exposure and Kartemquin Diverse Voices in Documentary Fellow, and was a Berlin Capital Fulbright awardee in 2017 as well as a Tribeca Film Institute IF/Then Finalist in 2019. She’s an Emmy award-winning producer from her two-season tenure at CBS Sunday Morning. A graduate of Boston College, she was a Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholar.
ABOUT THE FILM DOUGLASS
5th grade activists canvas the trains of Chicago in hopes of garnering community support to change the name of a park currently named after a slave owner to Frederick Douglass Park as part of their grass roots campaign curriculum.
Ifeyinwa Arinze is a neuroscientist-turned-filmmaker from Nigeria, and is currently based in New York City. Her work is focused on highlighting Black female relationships and intimacy through a myriad of lenses. She has worked as a neuroscience researcher in Massachusetts and Michigan, and she continues to draw creative inspiration from human behavior.
Ifeyinwa received her BA from Mount Holyoke College, and is now an MFA candidate in the Graduate Film program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. I created this documentary due to the intersection of my passion for female-centered stories and my investment in the national conversation about Black maternal health.
ABOUT THE FILM, HOLDING SPACE
In Brooklyn, NY, a doula supports three women as they grapple with their current and future transition into motherhood.
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