Nzinga Kemp attained her MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her work, Southern Love Acoustics, was selected as a finalist in the 2001 Urban World Screenplay Competition. A native of Talladega, Alabama and magna cum laude graduate of Clark Atlanta University, Nzinga has been a longtime fixture in the Atlanta arts community. Her one-act play “Smoke,” which she wrote and directed at eighteen, was selected by the National Black Arts Festival for its young playwrights workshop. In 2000, she directed and produced a festival of new plays at the National Black Arts Festival, including her work “Maze” and directed “Spoken Word Is,” a documentary featured in the NBAF’s Night of the Black Independent’s Showcase.

Tchaiko Omawale is a filmmaker and HIV/AIDS activist. She is the Creative Director of the youth-focused HIV/AIDS non-profit Conscious Movements Collective (featured in the Future 500, www.future500.com), which she co-founded in the fall of 2000. She is currently directing a documentary for that non-profit on Black and Latino youth and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Tchaiko studied Film and African-American Studies at Columbia University. During her time there, she interned for Spike Lee, Mira Nair, UNICEF in North Korea, and worked on various music video productions. While shot footage focusing the role of Hip-Hop in young immigrant communities.

A consummate traveler, Tchaiko has lived in over 7 different countries, leading to her belief that a true understanding of internationalism is the key to eliminating war and oppression, and inequality. After graduating from Columbia University she became a member of Abeja Obrera (www.abejaobrera.org) , a Cuba international solidarity organization that sees physical labor as a revolutionary quality for community development. In early 2002 Tchaiko left the Law Offices of Donna Bascom, where she assisted Mrs. Bascom on several HBO and Miramax films, to produce filmmaking full time. Her first producing project, His/Herstory has screened at several festivals including the Toronto Film Festival, and the African Diaspora Film Festival. She is also shopping the script , Looking for Che. a story about a modern day Joan of Arc, written by Laura Napier. Currently, Tchaiko is on an artist retreat in Cap Cod through the Gaea Sea Residency Fellowship, for artists working for social change.


FRANKLIN LEONARD

Franklin Leonard is a consultant at McKinsey & Company’s New York office currently advising client senior management on new market ventures and operational effectiveness. Prior to his tenure at McKinsey, he headed the communications operation for John Cranley’s congressional campaign in Ohio’s first district: overseeing advertising across all media, coordinating portions of MTV’s feature-length documentary on the campaign, and acting as primary liaison between the campaign and major media outlets including CNN, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Washington Post, and the New York Times among others. In addition to a brief stint with MTV news, Franklin has been a featured columnist for platform.net, the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (Columbus, GA), and the Trinidad Guardian (Port-au-Spain, Trinidad). He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University in Social Studies where he was a Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellow as well as a regional finalist for the Truman and Rhodes Scholarship. He also has a certificate in film from New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

EDITOR
FELICIA D. MOORE

Felicia D. Moore recently earned her MFA as an editing fellow at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Since her matriculation, she has worked as an Apprentice Editor of the Artisan Entertainment feature film, "The Punisher," featuring John Travolta. A true renaissance woman, Ms. Moore has worked professionally as an Assistant Editor and is the co-founder of Nen Savior Productions. She has produced and edited numerous short films, music videos, and theatrical productions. A former student ambassador of the United States in Australia, Ms. Moore was a recipient of the William Morris Agency Stan Kamen Endowment Fellowship and is a Bradley Family Scholar.

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
TENOLIAN BELL

Tenolian Bell has worked as the director of photography for more than twenty feature films and music videos with production companies in New York and Atlanta. He holds a MFA in media communication arts from The City College of New York and a bachelor of arts from Clark Atlanta University.