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Yvonne Michelle Shirley
Place of birth
Newark, New Jersey, USA
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Yvonne Michelle Shirley is a director and producer of narrative and documentary films. She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts' Graduate Film Program, and is inspired by filmmaking in the social realist tradition. Her short film, Flowers, won Best Short Film in the HBO Short Film Competition at the 2016 American Black Film Festival. Her documentary short, Miasia: The Nature of Experience premiered at the 2017 BlackStar Film Festival. She produced the award winning documentary short, Black 14, directed by Darius Clark Monroe, which most recently screened at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Yvonne is producing and directing the web series, Frame by Frame, for the au…
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A personal meditation on loss, family, home and reclamation through the artistic process of Adebunmi Gbadebo. Gbadebo creates works out of organic materials from the South Carolina plantation cemeteries where her formerly enslaved ancestors and their descendants are buried.
Watch Out for the Ghosts
2026
NRThe film chronicles the life of Brooklyn teenager Miasia Clark as she navigates her everyday world and prepares to present at the first-ever Black Girl Movement National Conference. Miasia is joined in this effort by members of her activist group, Girls for Gender Equity.
Miasia: The Nature of Experience
2017
Saturday Morning Blues is a coming-of-age story about a young girl trapped between adolescence and adulthood. The light of morning brings a sleepover, and a friendship to an abrupt and painful ending, slamming 15-year Sonya against the constraints of her reality.
Saturday Morning Blues
2010
NRThe story of what happened when a group of college athletes decided to protest a long-standing racial injustice.
The Black 14
2018
NRA revenge plot spirals out of control as two Brooklyn teens maneuver a Summer day they'll never forget.
Flowers
2016
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A personal meditation on loss, family, home and reclamation through the artistic process of Adebunmi Gbadebo. Gbadebo creates works out of organic materials from the South Carolina plantation cemeteries where her formerly enslaved ancestors and their descendants are buried.
Watch Out for the Ghosts
2026
NRThe film chronicles the life of Brooklyn teenager Miasia Clark as she navigates her everyday world and prepares to present at the first-ever Black Girl Movement National Conference. Miasia is joined in this effort by members of her activist group, Girls for Gender Equity.
Miasia: The Nature of Experience
2017
Saturday Morning Blues is a coming-of-age story about a young girl trapped between adolescence and adulthood. The light of morning brings a sleepover, and a friendship to an abrupt and painful ending, slamming 15-year Sonya against the constraints of her reality.
Saturday Morning Blues
2010
Saturday Morning Blues is a coming-of-age story about a young girl trapped between adolescence and adulthood. The light of morning brings a sleepover, and a friendship to an abrupt and painful ending, slamming 15-year Sonya against the constraints of her reality.
Saturday Morning Blues
2010
Saturday Morning Blues is a coming-of-age story about a young girl trapped between adolescence and adulthood. The light of morning brings a sleepover, and a friendship to an abrupt and painful ending, slamming 15-year Sonya against the constraints of her reality.
Saturday Morning Blues
2010
NRThe story of what happened when a group of college athletes decided to protest a long-standing racial injustice.
The Black 14
2018
NRA revenge plot spirals out of control as two Brooklyn teens maneuver a Summer day they'll never forget.
Flowers
2016
NRA revenge plot spirals out of control as two Brooklyn teens maneuver a Summer day they'll never forget.
Flowers
2016
NRA revenge plot spirals out of control as two Brooklyn teens maneuver a Summer day they'll never forget.
Flowers
2016