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Elizabeth Charles

Elizabeth has more than a decade of experience in media and entertainment across radio, commercials, branded content, music videos, short films and television in the Caribbean and United States. She works to champion content that exemplifies inclusive and diverse storytelling from multicultural voices.

Elizabeth previously worked in radio as an on-air host and commercial voice over artist in both the Cayman Islands and the U.S.. She was the Urban Music director for 88.9 WERS in Boston, which averaged 190K listeners per week. Though she has worked all time slots and various programming formats in audio, her favorite is late night RnB programming. In 2014, she became one of the first two Black students admitted to NYU’s  MBA/MFA in producing program. She is a graduate of NYU’s Stern School of Business and the Tisch School of the Arts. As an independent producer and strategist she’s worked for PwC and Univision. The short films she has produced have received the Clermont Ferrand and the Emerging Filmmaker Award in 2017 and 2018 from Palm Springs Shortfest. Additionally, she has produced two Vimeo Staff Picks and two of her more recent shorts have amassed 1m+ views.

Elizabeth is the founder of Syrn Media, which promotes underrepresented filmmakers through strategic services that increase diversity and inclusion in media. She cohosts a daily video podcast on Caymanian culture for the Cayman Islands, Homeland Daily is a 2020 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow and recipient of the Mark Silverman Honor.

Yeelen Cohen

Yeelen is a filmmaker, actor, writer, producer and theatre artist based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Born in Paris, France, and raised in Jacmel, Haiti, New York, Miami and San Francisco, their multicultural upbringing deeply influences their artistic practice and view of the world. Yeelen’s work, often rooted in the personal, unfolds into larger conversations about identity, history, space, diaspora and technology. They co-founded and curated the Afrofuturism Film Festival, assistant directed the Haitian magical-neorealist feature Ayiti Mon Amour, and recently starred in Random Acts of Flyness on HBO.

Ife Olujobi

Ife is a Nigerian American playwright and screenwriter from Columbia, Md. She is a 2019-20 New Voices fellow at The Lark, a 2020-21 resident artist at Ars Nova, a member of Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre, an alumnus of both the 2018-19 emerging writers group at  The Public Theater and the 2020 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, and the recipient of a 2020 Sloan Foundation commission from Manhattan Theatre Club. Her plays include​ Jordans, Smoke, MARKETPLACE,​ and others, and her work has been seen at The Public, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Charity Randall Theater, Bishop Arts Theater Center, and more. Ife also is the founder and editor of Townies​ zine, managing editor of ​The Supplements​ at Soho Rep, and a former assistant editor at the Criterion Collection. She received her BFA in dramatic writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2016.

Ameha Molla

Ameha is a creative and marketing professional with experience across production, advertising and brand strategy. Ameha directed six short films while working in marketing at Genentech, a biotechnology company. In this role, Ameha led the creative and production teams for an award-winning brand agency, developing and producing content focused on the stories of patients with cancer. Ameha was responsible for creating story concepts, directing animation and motion graphics teams, managing on set cast and crew, and final cut. He is interested in developing and directing stories that focus on the Ethiopian community.

Rajal Pitroda

Rajal is a producer working between the worlds of fiction and non-fiction film. Rajal most recently produced Down a Dark Stairwell, which premiered at the 2020 True/False Film Festival. She was an associate producer of The Kindergarten Teacher, a 2018 Sundance selection and a co-producer of O.G., a 2018 Tribeca Film Festival selection. Rajal is currently producing Higher 15, a personal film about an Ethiopian family confronting intergenerational trauma as refugees of the Red Terror; Last Will & Testament, a story of family, greed and class dynamics in rural Arkansas, anchored in a fantastical true crime narrative; and the documentary series Girls & Sex, a deep dive into the current landscape around sex and identity based on the New York Times bestselling book. Rajal is a 2020 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow, was a Resident at SFFILM FilmHouse, and an Impact Producing Fellow with Firelight Media.

Khalil Munir

Khalil is a noted theater artist, choreographer, and arts educator originally from South Philadelphia. He conceived and stars in the autobiographical stage production One Pound, Four Ounces. It combines dance, hip hop percussion and monologue to convey a raw, yet inspirational series of vignettes from his complicated childhood. The show has been mounted at Freedom Theatre, the First Person Arts Festival, the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, and through an ongoing residency at the National Museum of American Jewish History. This production is the inspiration for the documentary What’s in a Name? , which highlights self-determination and intergenerational healing among Black men. He is co-producing and co-writing the film. Khalil has been cast in numerous stage and screen productions as an actor and dancer, including Karl “Dice” Raw’s The Last Jimmy. He has served on the faculty at Philadelphia’s historic Freedom Theatre, Delaware Valley Friends School and Temple University, and he has helped train educators who work with students with learning disabilities. Khalil graduated from Adelphi University.