<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/7f87588e28d8b78bce91fc00d6fe5c2b.jpg" width="149">Legacy: Raised on mid 80s &amp; 90s pop culture from films to music, it quickly shaped Detroit's young film maker/multi artist &amp; activist J. Zuberi. Becoming a big supporter of visionaries &amp; storytellers like Jordan Peele, Spike Lee, Christopher Nolan &amp; many more. Jade leans more into the realistic approach to film, bringing in social commentary &amp; ethereal worlds. Having also grown up with being a Comic Book nerd, his imagination is quite big as well, so finding the perfect balance of realistic storytelling &amp; fictional worlds is right up his alley.&nbsp;<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/d30c0a7bd2efa6372476c3cb94079b48.jpg" width="125">Checkmate Humanity: Collective work Tatiana Mejia, La armada, Jon Kiriac and Jonathan Steil. Just in case here my Bio as a choreographer:Dancer, performer and choreographer. Born and founded in Dominican Republic, studied in The National Dance School of the DR. There she presented her work at Edanco and the National Contemporary Dance Company. Winner of several scholarship awards in the U.S.A. and Europe. Since 2011 lives and worked as an independent dance artist in Berlin, and has performed and collaborated with several artists of the free scene.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/bfa5946bdb192d480672b4981db4ce42.jpg" width="154">Unseen: Ibrah Silas Jackson is dance choreographer/ director from Arnhem, The Netherlands. The foundation of his dance lies within the hiphop culture but also gained more knowledge by studying and learning about different movements disciplines such as contemporary, ballet, kickboxing footwork and African roots movements. He studied storytelling through movements and visuals. His work is based on story telling, This is how he connects with his audience.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/275f489f1e1b5089c618b7434e8121c3.jpg" width="208">Saint-Loius On The Move: A graduate of INSAS, Kita Bauchet is a Belgian filmmaker. After several short fiction films, Violette et Framboise, Le temps d'un soufflé, Violette au Travail, in 2009 she directed La Fabrique de Panique, a feature-length documentary on the Belgian animated film "Panique au village" by Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier, will follow in 2016 Une vie contre l'oubli on the work of director André Dartevelle. In 2018, she created Bains Publics, which opened the doors to the "Bains du Centre" in the heart of a popular district of Brussels. The film received the France Télévisions prize for best documentary at the International Festival of Women's Films in Créteil as well as at the Brussels in Love festival and a special mention from the jury at the "Signes de vie&nbsp;Clermont-Ferrand" festival.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/884c3cd4fdd784bcfa655ed83a89a9f5.jpg" width="284">Jonki Boi:Ibrahim Hamid Koroma also known as Director Wizik, is a Film Director, Writer, Cinematographer and a Film Editor from Freetown, Sierra Leone(West Africa, Africa). Ibrahim started Filmmaking in 2016; a few months after completing his High School. Choosing Filmmaking as a Career has to be one of the Craziest decisions he ever made, taking into consideration the little amount of people who excel in any of the filmmaking careers in his country; thus, the learning process was crazy too.The best solution was self teaching and YouTube became his dear teacher. Spending hours learning, brought sleepless nights.His directorial Debut came in 2018 and the whole movie thing was new to him and he had to collaborate with some friends, who were into Filmmaking making. And that was how Run( a shot movie was born) Fast Forward to 2022, he has already Directed a couple of Short Films and also got his first feature in filmmaking called Taxi. Making Movies is the only thing he finds pleasure in doing and when he is not making movies, he mostly tries to literally kill myself for not doing what he loves to do.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/022b5027c77ae9bef69123cd671ad64a.jpg" width="206">Owba Coocoo(Slave Ship):Odiase David Osaodion, also known as The 78th Psalmist, is a Nigerian poet and Creative writer, Famed for his command of wordplays, metaphors, and sarcasm.David is the founder of Pun nation, an online platform founded for helping creatives hone their skills in double entendre and wordplay, and has groomed over 200 trainees from different countries since inception. He has lectured at various workshops and continues to facilitate Masterclasses. In 2016, his poem "pangolo" was shortlisted among the top ten entrants for the Nigerian Student Poetry Prize. In 2019 he was part of a team of Poets who worked on a Spoken Word Incubation development project, with Award-winning Singer and Songwriter Brymo Olawale Oloforo as one of the Adjudicators. He has also partnered with Environmental NGO; Humanity Nigeria, in their Guinness World Record Attempt in 2020. The same year, he was featured in Daily Trust National Newspaper where he was privileged to speak extensively on his craft.In the hearth of the Covid-19 pandemic, to wide acclaim, he self-funded the production of Several Spoken Word Ad Contents for targeted Brands such as Bolt (Taxify) Nigeria, Frieslandcampina WAMCO et al. In 2021 in Collaboration with Art illustrator, Alex Uba, he has launched a Wordplay comic strip Creative concept while his Poetry Short Film "Of Broken Homes" was in contention for the Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) Short Video Prize, an initiative of the European Union. His spoken word short film on the Trans-Atlantic slave trade 'OWBA COOCOO' was a winner of the Ekonke Video contest Prize in the same year. He has been on platforms such as Folio Media (CNN Affiliate in Nigeria) Award-winning TVC Art Express, Green Economy and Environmental summit at the Nigerian Climate Innovation Centre, The Gathering, Creative Intelligence Agency Fab Labs, to mention but a few. In 2021 he was part of contributors to the West-Africa to west Oakland poetry exchange David was also Ranked Second of the Top 10 Nigeria Young Poets for 2020 by BN Magazine. He is considered as one of Nigeria's Most Sort after Young Performance Poets.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/37cc37374e01d6dfacffd71c1180b615.jpg" width="287">Now And How:Slim Jones, North London filmmaker. Background in IT but a badass filmmaker.Piotr Sell, Polish transplant in East London..&nbsp;<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/f416fb47716827e6a84f9fa6abab92db.jpg" width="190">Dick Control: Shequeta L. Smith is a Salisbury, North Carolina native and alumna of North Carolina State University. She began her career in entertainment as a College Representative for Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella Records. Since 2008, she has been busy writing and directing short films, writing, and creating comics, and writing award-winning screenplays that typically feature badass women. In 2019, she was one of eight screenwriters in the world selected to write a screenplay in Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Impact screenwriting incubator program. Shero Comics is a multimedia company that focuses on minority women in comics, films, and gaming, with the mission to help women and girls uncover their superpowers. In 2019, the company partnered with Westfield Corporation and launched the only allfemale comic convention in America, SheroCon, which made history as the first comic con to ever take place inside a Westfield property. The company was recently awarded the 2021 Digital Undivided Breakthrough Grant, powered by JP Morgan Chase &amp; Co.’s Advancing Black Pathways, to develop its award-winning graphic novel series, Rayven Choi, into a mobile game<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/23577ecbe530239e051f51c45a9ff2a2.png" width="176">Heckler's Anthem: Sam Chimes Adimora is a Nigerian born Canadian first time film director. He graduated from Vancouver Film School and has since been working on various film sets as a sound mixer, boom Operator, and stunts man. Showing up in various roles on the sets has given Sam much experience watching the countless that go into creating a film. Sam is also a musician and has successfully accomplished two world tours.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/75f082f9606157772bbee06bc4083ff4.jpg" width="251">Rekana Sharon Ojong is a multifaceted creative - content producer, wardrobe stylist, fashion designer, and now filmmaker. She has 11+ years of experience in major aspects of media, practices across multiple disciplines, and working with clients in various industries (fashion startups and content production companies being the most common ones) to help them be better storytellers, aligning their mission with their community. With her years of experience, keen eye and passion for television and storytelling, she has recently found herself especially interested in filmmaking.&nbsp;&nbsp;“I have a keen interest in the business of fashion, art and design technology, creating and developing ideas, and the art of storytelling through multimedia platforms. My body of work spans across fashion styling, fashion blogging, television production, retail/brand management, creative direction, public relations, website management, videography, and event production.I also enjoy creating from waste, spearheading engaging content, the experience of learning new skills, and sharing industry insight on how to apply the ever-changing world trends to the real world settings.”&nbsp;<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/b18d61a9d6f8e5dc147d51fcf9237904.jpg" width="165">The Art Of Winning: Andrew Joseph is a Caribbean Filmmaker dedicated to telling compelling stories and bringing to life topics that impact lives daily. Starting his career as a writer/photographer, the natural progression for him was filmmaking in 2016. From there he went on to do Television series, Documentaries and Films.

"Legacy" takes on the harsh reality of the Black Experience &amp; how what many would rather forget as a thing of the past, many still know impacts our everyday actions &amp; how we navigate through life. We can not heal forward, if we do not acknowledge &amp; heal our pasts.&nbsp;

Legacy

A dance expression of grief and pain from the Black experience in America

The caribbean hardcore punk band La armada collaborated with the contemporary dancer Tatiana Mejía. To interpret, “Who or what is it that conquers me?”<a href="www.tatianamejia.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> &gt;&gt;Website&lt;&lt;</a>

Checkmate Humanity

“Who or what is it that conquers me?”

Unseen is a short movie performed through movements about a black depressed, addicted teenager. Who is looking for away out on everything but finds it very scary. In this short movie overthinking freaks him out his appartment / comfort zone to the outside world where time is reversed but he's not. Through his trip in the city, He meets strangers. They are reflections on his depressive and addictive mind state. They constantly attack him and push to self reflection.

UNSEEN

reflections on a depressive and addictive mind state

The result of a collaboration between the Senegalese contemporary dance company Diagn'art and the Belgian and Swiss artists Kita Bauchet and Stéphanie Pfister, "Saint-Louis on the move" presents a subjective sketch of the city and the rythme of its daily life. An exploration of Saint-Louis through several choreographies performed by 2 dancers and 2 cameras, on Siegfried Canto’s music that highlight the cities energy and the fierce creativity of its youth.

Saint-Louis on the move

The result of a collaboration between the Senegalese dance company Diagn'art and the Belgian and Swiss artists Kita Bauchet and Stéphanie Pfister, "Saint-Louis on the move" presents a subjective sketch of the city and the rythme of its daily life.

Sometimes your feelings are unexplainable, they stare at you in the face. You just battle with them in silence. It is an unending sphere going in a circle. The best way to describe such is to get it into picture, because sometimes words aren’t just enough to explain to people how you feel.

Jonki Boi

This movie send you the myth within the soul that can’t be explained.

OWBA COOCOO is a spoken word short film that chronicles African History and Humanizes the Experience of Black slaves as they crossed the door no return to the wooden sea vessel embarking on a horror filled voyage to the new world. Even today we still feel the bane of these events; A reality Owba Coocoo confronts in its narrative. Albeit there exists a plethora of works both visual and textual on the general slave experience but very few works (by african storytellers) on the slave ship itself, given that it was more than just a vessel of conveyance to the new world but a place where black slaves from diverse backgrounds formed a general language for communication, shared stories and songs - nascent culture.

OWBA COOCOO (SLAVE SHIP)

A poet engages the oceans in a conversation on the Slave ship experience of Black people

On a particular night a man receives a call and now has only minutes to decide if he’s up for the challenge of the callers demands in order to save a love one in great danger…a matter of life or degraded death.

NOW AND HOW

A man-in-love has to make tough decisions to save his lover's life.

Richard Tye “Trigga” Simmons, a rich, promiscuous, jet-setting rapper, has a one-night stand with a beautiful groupie who happens to be a witch. When Tye disrespects her, she places a "penis curse" that cock blocks him until he learns how to respect women. <a href="https://sherocomics.com/ " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&gt;&gt;Website&lt;&lt;</a>

Dick Control

a man is cursed until he learns how to respect women

Sensei Lily teaches her Martial Arts class a valuable lesson: “without me, the Hecklers have no purpose”. She plays a song by Sam Chimes which starts the musical part of this short film. Sam Chimes is Heckled and instead of falling to the Heckler’s energy, he rises and transforms his environment with his attitude we hear in the music and lyrics.

Heckler's Anthem

Heckler's Anthem: Without me the Heckler's have no purpose. A short film style music video showcase event. "Heckler's Anthem" premier, starring Sam Chimes, Lily Vartour, Koni Lam, & Kayla Cho.

Over the years, a number of formidable musicians have paid tribute to the late, great Winnie Madikizela-Mandela through song. Some of these musicians include Thandiswa Mazwai, Jennifer Hudson, Carlene Davis, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Sathima Bea Benjamin, Simphiwe Dana, Letta Mbuli, Rhapsody and Lira. This documentary is about the impact of these songs. The social actors reflect on Winnie’s legacy and how her llustrious career as a freedom fighter has been celebrated through song. The social actors unpack how music has always been used by South African artists to resist oppression, assert black equality and heal the nation from the traumas of the past. One of the songs that features prominently in “Celebrating Herstory Through Song” is Thandiswa Mazwai’s iconic “Nizalwa Ngobani”. Mazwai proclaims that Madikizela-Mandela is a ‘hero amongst heroes’. The poignant lyrics of the “Nizalwa Ngobani” bear testament to the deep love and respect that Thandiswa and many other musicians, have for Winnie.

Celebrating Herstory Thru song

A film celebrating great Winnie Madikizela-Mandela through song

A country man in Jamaica is riding his motorcycle in a beautiful mountain setting. While he is reflecting on life he makes a genuine connection with people he sees along the road. He is compelled to help others, so he gives all he has to give.

The Road of Life

Focusing on the humanity of the people of the Carribean, this cinematic music video shows a man reflecting on life during a motorcycle ride through Jamaica's legendary Blue Mountains.

Children of God’ represents Rekana’s Rainy Resort 2022 fashion collection, and each piece in the collection tells its own story. It tells the story of a distressed afro-modern man running away from his past towards photosynthesis. He finds himself amongst a diverse group of church members where he asks himself what he truly seeks- compassion, community, or inclusion? Shot in the heart of Lagos, the 12-minute piece showcases a diverse group of church members unified in their quest for a common good.

Children of God

A distressed afro-modern man running away from his past towards a photosynthesis.

A documentary about the Dance Art Form known as&nbsp;Wining. The production breaks down the history, the transition of the dance into Carnival celebrations within the Caribbean. Also it investigates the way it is perceived, the way it is done and its influence. Featuring Mindy Giles, La Shaun Prescott, Priscilla Gueverra, Luna, and Ula Fryc. Directed by Andrew Joseph <a href="http://www.gtcaribbeannetwork.tv/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&gt;&gt;Website&lt;&lt;</a>

The Art of Wining

Follow the evolution of a Dance through ceremonies from the 18th Century to present day Carnival festivals throughout the Caribbean and the world.

Afro Pics Movement & Music

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