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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