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Jade Bryan
Jade Bryan is an award-winning filmmaker and activist. She is the first Black Deaf woman filmmaker in America. Jade has been producing, directing, and writing films for over 25 years. Jade is a multi-hyphenated artist and entrepreneur with a BFA degree in
film production from one of the world’s top film schools at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Jade has produced over 30 projects such as feature films, documentaries, shorts, music videos, and TV pilots. ”The Shattered Mind” is a feature film she completed in 2014 and toured 47 film festivals around the globe from 2015-2017. “The Shattered Mind” won 17 awards; included Best Sound, Audience Award, Special Jury Prize, Best Exhibition Film and Best Narrative Feature and Short. Her production company is working on an eight- part documentary series, “Black and Deaf in America”, about various issues regarding deaf (African-Americans) who were impacted by police brutality, racism, black erasure, rape, immigration and deportation, and oppression in
the educational system. Jade has a TV series in the works with Hollywood executives, which is a coming-of-age story loosely based on her life. In 2023, Jade created a new TV pilot, ‘What Somalia Wants’, which she wrote, produced, and directed. The film is currently being showcased in various film festivals, where it has received numerous accolades.
Jade believes in promoting inclusion and representation of BIPOC Deaf Talent® in front of and behind the camera. She is the creator of the #DeafTalent® Movement, to amplify BIPOC voices and creators.
Franklin Livingstone
Abrogation is a love story. It deals with many subjects, including self-love, fighting one’s own demons, restoration, and self-healing before uniting with one’s true love. The overarching theme of the movie depicts issues of race and gender and how, in the context of modern-day American politics and religion, one’s racial and gender identity fuels communal racism, ethnocentrism, and marginalization of women and people of color.
Marck Angel
“SERAPHIM: The Motion Picture” is an experimental, musical-drama centered around “Black Queer romantic love” but its messages speak to something much larger & permeating… “human love”. We wanted to craft a film that, no matter a viewers color, sexuality, gender or nationality, would impact people from a human perspective – and raise awareness that everyone is impacted by love, as well as life. Bridging those pillars through music, dance, poetry & parable, we believe we’ve created a unique piece of art, not in a conceited manner, but in a quite literal, humble one… an urban Black Queer musical is simply an anomaly in contemporary film, and with this challenge, we set out to create a piece that we hope you’ll find refreshing, provocative, empowering and inspiring.