CO-FOUNDER

Christopher Everett is a Durham, NC-based producer and director of the award-winning documentary film "Wilmington on Fire." He is the founder and president of Speller Street Films and currently works with the Southern Documentary Fund as Program Manager. Christopher is currently filming his next two documentaries, "Wilmington on Fire: Chapter II" and "Grandmaster," which looks at the legacy of martial arts pioneer Vic Moore.

CO-FOUNDER

Curtis Caesar John sees cinema as the nexus for furthering our understanding of one another, even within our own cultures, and thus works tirelessly as an arts manager, advocate, and filmmaker. As the Founder and Executive Director of nomadic microcinema The Luminal Theater, since 2015 he brings Black independent films directly to Black communities, as well as to general audiences interested and invested in the Black cinematic voices.

He is also co-founder/producer of the Black documentary director focused series BLK Docs, and of The Caribbean Film Series (2015-present) which takes place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), where he also served as a Programmer-at-Large from 2018 to 2020, and with whom he’s been independently programming since 2009. As a filmmaker, Curtis’ work has been shown internationally at film festivals as well as on numerous streaming channels. Curtis is currently a producer on “Stonebreakers”, a new documentary about the fight over monuments in the United States, the meaning of memorialization and how history can inflame present-day political action, and the editor of a documentary on the Black Pacific.