GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING PANEL- Title: Making Room at the Table: Women in Georgia’s Film Industry
- Description: Moderator Kalena Boller talks with a panel about how Georgia’s film industry has changed over the years for women cast and crew.
- Panelists: Michele Prettyman, Chad Darnell, Laura Lundy, Jameelah Nuriddin
PANELIST BIOS
Kalena Boller hosts the Georgia Public Broadcasting podcast, The Credits. In it, she meets the people who work behind the scenes in Georgia's multibillion dollar film industry, which now hosts the most feature-film productions in the world. After graduating from Howard University with a Bachelor of Arts in Film, Kalena moved to Atlanta and jumped right into the industry. Kalena got her first post-graduate on-set opportunity in June 2005 as an unpaid intern for a T-Payne music video. Kalena impressed the production staff so much that her unpaid internship turned into a paid Production Assistant gig on day one. Before leaving the film industry in 2019 as a location manager, Kalena racked up more than 40 credits to her name, including AMC's The Walking Dead and FOX's Star.
More on Kalena:
https://www.gpbnews.org/people/kalena-bollerMore on. The Credits Podcast:
TheCreditsPodcast.com Dr. Michele Prettyman, co-founder of Daughters of Eve Media, is a media consultant, writer, and a scholar of film, media, and African American cinema. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Africana Studies at Mercer University, where she teaches screenwriting, digital storytelling and film studies courses. She is also a co-curator of the CollegeTown and the Tubman African American Film Festivals and has a longstanding partnership with the American Black Film Festival (ABFF), the oldest and largest African American film festival in the country. Dr. Prettyman is currently developing her own projects and frequently consults with other filmmakers on their work.
More on Michelle:
http://micheleprettymanbeverly.strikingly.com/Chad Darnell casts talent all over the Southeast: from Richmond, VA to Birmingham, AL and Savannah and Atlanta, GA. Most recent credits include the series FLORIDA GIRLS and the feature films LIVE!, THE POISON ROSE, EMPEROR, KILLERMAN, and THE COLL3TED. He is also a writer/ producer/ director/ actor: His screenplay DARLENE will begin production in Fall 2019 with Mary Lambert directing. He will direct THE UNDERTAKER'S WIFE in late 2019. His pilot MORTIFIED is currently in development with Hazy Mills. As an actor, he most recently appeared as "Hedwig" in HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH in Atlanta. He is the creator of The Lysistrata Project. His podcast, OMG, I LOVE YOU is available on iTunes and Spotify.
More on Chad:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0201504/More on his podcast OMG, I LOVE YOU:
http://omgiloveyou.libsyn.com/Laura Lundy was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and grew up in Cedartown, Georgia. Laura graduated from Cumberland School of Law of Samford University where she obtained her Juris Doctorate. During law school, Laura trained at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in L.A. Laura now lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She serves as the Chief Judge for the Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit, which covers Polk County, Georgia, and Haralson County, Georgia. She is also an actress and co-founder of the group Safety Shot, a group trying to address sexual abuse within Georgia’s film industry.
More on Laura:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5773615/More on Safety Shot:
https://www.gpbnews.org/post/fighting-sexual-harassment-georgias-film-setsJameelah Nuriddin is an actress from Atlanta, and she now lives in Los Angeles. Jameelah began her professional career as a 12-year-old actress, opposite Don Cheadle and Cicely Tyson. A wild storm of innovation and natural-born storyteller, Jameelah’s creative background lends a unique perspective as a business leader and project manager. A revolutionary producer and fundraiser she’s launched civic initiatives, global youth workshops, and professional programs for women, and raised over thousands for films centered around historic African-American women. She produced and edited the virtual reality film, 'SEE ME', using storytelling and new technology to address underlying social justice issues for women. Jameelah most recently partnered with the CEO and Founder of Advancing Women Executives, where she launched AWE Accelerator, a program designed to bring professional development training - including confidence-building and storytelling - to women in Fortune 500 companies. She was awarded ‘Best Film Editor’ in Women’s Independent Film Festival for Why I Dance.
More on Jameelah:
http://jameelahcreates.com/
