#FilmDis creator and filmmaker, Dominick Evans, shares his own story.
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Aicha Cherif is a force. At 17, she’s a seasoned activist fighting across multiple issue areas. She’s got film credits to her name. And she’s just getting started.
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Born and raised in Buffalo to Syrian immigrant parents in the early 90s, Akram Shibly grew up hurt by the way his faith and culture were portrayed in the media. Inspired to take matters into his own hands, he devoted his life to filmmaking.
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William Yu is the Korean-American digital strategist and mastermind behind the internet phenomena known as #StarringJohnCho and #SeeAsAmStar.
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Ms. Marvel, the 16-year-old Pakistani-American and Muslim superhero from Jersey City, is exactly the kind of story Pakistani-American cinematographer and filmmaker, Nausheen Dadabhoy, wants to see in comics and on screen.
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Rapper and singer/songwriter, CJ Run, is ready and excited to step into the spotlight as a voice for people too often underrepresented.
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When he was ten, Martinez’s parents made the decision to relocate the family to the U.S. in the hopes of introducing their son to a world of opportunities. They arrived in Charlottesville, Virginia in the ‘90s. “As soon as we crossed the border, immigration became part of my life, whether I wanted it to be or not,” Martinez told me over the phone. Subconsciously, he began to use his gift of storytelling and documenting to help his parents feel at home.
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I'm not about any particular kind of story. But If I had to say what my stories have in common, I'll say “stories offering an alternative African narrative." There's already so much out there about what Africans are, or what African cinema is, and in my view, it's much too constrained.
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