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Networking Mixer for Directors + Producers + Editors

January 29th, 2021
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Reclaim the Frame Mixer

Networking Mixer for Directors + Producers + Editors

January 29th, 2021

Film Fatales and Ujima Entertainment Collective hosted a virtual networking mixer between Directors, Producers, and Editors. This event was perfect for those eager to meet creative collaborators, excited to share details about your latest passion project, or missing the company of like-minded artists! We began with a lightning round of introductions facilitated by Leah Meyerhoff, founder of Film Fatales, Dominique Ulloa, Chair of Ujima Entertainment Coalition, and Shannon Baker Davis, Editor, Queen Sugar before dividing up into smaller discussion circles for meaningful conversations and deeper connections based on a series of guided prompts.

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Date:
January 29, 2021
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12:00 am
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Date:
January 29, 2021
Time:
12:00 am
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Panelists

Dominique Ulloa is a proud single mom of two from the Crenshaw District of South Los Angeles. Growing up, she had a unique relationship to Hollywood: her house was in Boys ‘N the Hood, her high school choir was the inspiration for the movie Sister Act 2, and the sitcom Moesha (starring Brandy Norville) was based on her school and neighborhood. That meant that the world of television and film was all around her, and yet it was inaccessible at the same time. She studied cinema verité editing traditions under the tutelage of Joshua Altman, and archive-driven documentary under the tutelage of Pedro Kos and with practicum on his new feature film. Previously, Ulloa worked on the six-part docu-series Surviving R. Kelly, which aired on Lifetime and was nominated for a Peabody Award. She also edited the television documentary In God We Trust: 9/11 Triumph from Tragedy, as well as the 2018 Winter Olympics Games. She is an ACE Fellow, A Karen Schmeer Diversity in the Edit Fellow, and chair of the Ujima Entertainment Coalition, a nationwide collective of African American post-production professionals with over 1200 members. She began her career in post-production operations at the Oprah Winfrey Network.

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Leah Meyerhoff is an award winning independent filmmaker who wrote and directed the narrative feature film I Believe in Unicorns which was released theatrically after premiering at SXSW, winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival and additional awards from Woodstock Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Tribeca Film Institute, IFP, and the Adrienne Shelly Foundation. Leah’s films have screened in over 200 film festivals and aired on IFC, PBS, LOGO, and MTV. She is a fellow of the IFP Narrative Labs, Tribeca All Access Labs, and Emerging Visions program at the New York Film Festival. Leah is also the founder of Film Fatales, a non-profit organization which advocates for parity in the film industry and supports a membership community of over a thousand women and non-binary feature film and television directors nationwide. She holds a BA in Art-Semiotics from Brown University and an MFA in Directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Shannon Baker Davis, ACE is an award-winning television and film editor, who began her career in New York, editing unscripted shows and documentaries. After 10 years working on many iconic and Emmy-winning shows such as Top Chef and Project Runway, Shannon began adding narrative television and feature films to her resume. Her credits include Insecure, from Issa Rae, Grown-ish, a spin-off of the highly acclaimed series, Black-ish, from creator, Kenya Barris, and Queen Sugar, from creator Ava DuVernay. In features, she edited Armstrong, starring Vicky Jeudy, Sean Parsons, Jason Antoon, and Kevin Pollak, and The Weekend (Lionsgate), starring Sasheer Zamata, Tone Bell, and DeWanda Wise, from director Stella Meghie. The Weekend had its World Premiere at Toronto Film Festival in 2018, and screened at AFI Fest, South by Southwest, and Tribeca Film Festival. Next, she cut the feature, The Obituary of Tunde Johnson, directed by Ali LeRoi (creator, Everybody Hates Chris) which premiered at TIFF in 2019. Shannon reunited with Stella Meghie on The Photograph (Universal), starring Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield. Her most recent project is the Netflix series #blackaf, created by Kenya Barris (Black-ish, Grown-ish, Mixed-ish), which stars Barris and Rashida Jones. Her series and film credits run the gamut, from funny to heartbreaking, provocative to visual-effects-heavy and action-packed. She is a member of ACE, where she is a mentor in their Diversity Mentorship Program, and she is the Co-chair of the African-American Steering Committee of the Motion Picture Editors Guild. Shannon grew up in Augusta, GA, earned degrees from Howard University and The American Film Institute, and resides in Los Angeles, CA, with her husband and 2 children.

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Ujima Entertainment Coalition fosters a safe, collaborative space for black post-production professionals of the African diaspora to revel in their passion for a spectrum of black stories. Their focus is mentorship, advocacy, empowerment and educational resources. They will always strive to share black excellence in their stories and work.