Chanelle Aponte Pearson

Late-night series featuring a mix of vérité documentary, musical performances, surrealist melodrama and humorous animation as a stream-of-consciousness response to the contemporary American mediascape.

This dreamlike fusion of political thriller and science-fiction fantasia is set to original music by Beyoncé.

Marseille, today. Aminata works as a hairdresser in an Afro hairdressing salon, Badara works as mechanic. When they meet, their love story will change their lives.

In a dystopian future where people live nocturnally to avoid the harmful rays of the sun, a young black girl unravels the lie that has kept her and her sister in the dark.

Set in motion by a tragic police-involved shooting, two communities of color navigate fraught perceptions of injustice, inequality, and discrimination in the eyes of the law.

A portrait of Ryann Holmes, community organizer and co-founder of bklyn boihood, un/doing and reframing masculinity.

Drenched in the heat, spirit and landscape of South Florida, Swimming in Your Skin Again celebrates the spiritual feminine and coming of age. Guided by female inspirations we tour the ritual anchorages of life in and around Miami: the Catholic church, the swamp, the backyard, the water.

American civil rights attorney John Burris lends his sonorous voice to "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" director Terence Nance’s imaginative and moving (and brilliantly edited) anti-police-brutality video in support of the non-violent Blackout Black Friday protest.

A look at the deep-seated roots of our feelings.

A dramatic comedy about a group of friends navigating the realities of being Black, queer, and polyamorous in New York City. Set in the heart of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, the series follows artist Yuri (Rae Leone Allen, also co-creator of the film) and her girlfriend Camille as they test the boundaries of their open relationship.

Directed by Terence Nance, the film addresses the detachment we all battle, when faced with the the world's overwhelming issues. "It's hard to think about all the problems in the world without getting a little overwhelmed. So, a lot of times we just ignore things. I think Africa has suffered a lot because people choose to remain ignorant, rather than address the issues that are right in front of our faces," Blitz said.

This video came out of frustration with game shows that turn survival and struggle into spectacle. This piece flips the format, it’s a collective experiment, shaped by the principles of dialects of nature : 🌱 Everything is connected 🌊 Nature is always in motion and changing 📈 Quantity becomes quality ⚔️ Contradictions drive transformation Meet our mushrooms spiraling through the glittering decaying stage of capital, in pursuit of peace, land, and bread.

A quixotic artist hypothesizes about why he feels bad when a mystery girl stands him up. The event prompts him to ask: what's the content of a momentary feeling? Is it the sum of your experiences? And perhaps more importantly, are your experiences the sum of you?