Join us the March on Washington Film Festival and the Reel Empowerment Lab, for a multi-day series of masterclasses, workshops and discussions where industry experts share their roles in the entertainment and journalism fields, offer advice and address the skills that careers in film and journalism require.

Empowerment Lab speakers:

Grace Lee is an independent producer & director and writer working in both narrative and non-fiction film. She directed the Peabody Award-winning documentary AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS, which The Hollywood Reporter called ”an entertainingly revealing portrait of the power of a single individual to effect change.” The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival where it won its first of six audience awards before its broadcast on the PBS documentary series POV. Her previous documentary THE GRACE LEE PROJECT won multiple awards, broadcast on the Sundance Channel and was called “ridiculously entertaining” by New York Magazine and “ a funny but complex meditation on identity and cultural expectation,” by Variety.

Asad Muhammad, VP of Impact & Engagement Strategy leads the American Documentary |POV Engage team which encompasses the community engagement, education, and station relations arm for television’s longest running showcase for independent nonfiction works. Asad brings over fifteen years of experience in education and community development with a primary focus on the advancement of court-involved, queer-identified and incarcerated youth.