Avril Speaks & Loria King: People, Passion & Purpose

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In this conversation filmmakers Avril Speaks & Loria King
speak about how they discovered their passion to tell stories and
how their journey together has become a lifelong friendship and
creative partnership and the obstacles and aha moments they
discovered along the way. 

Their recent project Black America Is... is a gallery exhibit
that highlights the complexity of the Black experience, allowing
audiences to engage with the uniqueness that comes with our
shared yet individual experience.
 
Loria King is an independent documentary filmmaker and
photographer who focuses on nuanced stories involving race,
gender, culture, and ethnicity. She began her filmmaking journey
as an intern with Spike Lee’s Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks
and her passion for her craft has led her to share her real-world
experience with students as a film professor in the classroom.
Her project, "Black America Is…," , was selected as part of the
2020 Film Independent/CNN Docuseries. 


 Executive Producer. Showrunner. Producer. Director. Avril
Speaks has been carving out her path as a bold, innovative
content creator for years, not only as a Producer and Director
but also during her days as a professor at Howard University and
as a film educator through Film Independent, the Sundance
Institute, and Distribution Advocates. Avril produced the
award-winning film Jinn, which premiered at SXSW and won Special
Jury Recognition for Writing. She also produced several films
including African America, which was nominated for an NAACP Image
Award and is streaming on Netflix. Avril produced the “Black
America Is... project”, which premiered at the Afrikana Film
Festival a couple of weeks ago in October.


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