MINI SESSION - APPLYING A BLACK FEMINIST LENS IN FILM
10:40 AM – 11:20 AM | Speaker: Imani Gill
This workshop will define prominent themes in womanism and identify these concepts within film today. Film can be utilized as an act of resistance to systematic oppression that we as Black Women face.
MINI SESSION – THE MAGIC IN BLACK GIRL IDENTITY
11:20 AM – 11:50 AM | Speaker: Dr. Michelle Meggs
Participants will discover the meaning of Black girl identity and how magical and unique their identities are individually.
IMANI GILL
College Senior at UNC Charlotte
Imani Gill is from Raleigh, North Carolina. She is a fourth-year undergraduate student at UNC Charlotte, majoring in Communication Studies with a minor in Urban Youth and communities. Imani has a passion for the arts, enjoys learning and redefining Black Womanhood for herself.
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DR. MICHELLE MEGS
Executive Director of the Women + Girls Research Alliance
Dr. Michelle Meggs serves as the Executive Director of the Women and Girls Research Alliance at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is committed to helping Black women and girls show up in the world as their most authentic, audacious selves.
FILM MAKING SESSION – STORYTELLING & SCRIPT WRITING
12 PM – 12:30 PM | Director, Keema Mingo
Participants will learn how to develop a story for their film and learn the art of script writing. This session is led by film director Keema Mingo.
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WORKSHEETS (Available In Booklets)
Storytelling
Worksheet
Watch: Week One Film Tip From Keema
Script Draft
Worksheet
Film Design
Worksheet
Katrina O'Gilvie
Katrina O'Gilvie fell in love with the film industry at an early age, and followed that passion to film school at The New School University in NYC. Her time in film development at Imagine Entertainment and then as Aaron Sorkin's assistant on SPORTS NIGHT gave her even more experience working directly with writers, directors, showrunners, producers, and executives. While raising her children, Katrina worked in production, wrote a pregnancy book, and was a feature writer for LA Parent Magazine. During that time, she continued to write film and television scripts as well as her first novel. Before long, she was commissioned to three TV movies, including the award-winning and NAACP Image Award-nominated Rosa Parks movie, BEHIND THE MOVEMENT, chronicling the four days between when Mrs. Parks gave up her seat and the first day of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She is incredibly proud to have been a writer/story editor on SWAGGER, a new show from Apple TV, Imagine Entertainment & CBS Studios, with her friend and mentor Reggie Rock Bythewood at the helm. Most recently, she sold a pilot, ACTIVATION, to CBS Network via the Rideback Writer's Program.
IN FOCUS
AN INTIMATE CHAT SESSION WITH
KATRINA O'GILVIE
12:30PM - 12:50PM
