Producers Forum: Luchina Fisher

Producers Forum: Luchina Fisher

Fri, Aug 9, 2024, 7:00 PM-9:00PM
Cost: 
General Admission $7.50, Students/Seniors $5.00, Scribe Members $4.00

Scribe Video Center will be screening "Locked Out." LOCKED OUT is a feature documentary about the brave Black women of Detroit who face scammers and evictions, as they fight modern-day redlining to help make The American Dream a reality for all. Produced by Saville Productions. Best Documentary Feature, 2023 American Black Film Festival; Shine the Light Award, World Premiere, 2023 Freep Festival; Runner Up Audience Awards, 2023 Woods Hole Film Festival; Opening Night Film, 2023 Double Exposure Film Festival. After the screening, filmmaker will be there in person for a conversation about the film and more.

LUCHINA FISHER (she/her) is an Emmy® Award-winning director, producer and writer whose work is at the intersection of race, gender and identity. Her latest film, the short documentary THE DADS, about five fathers of trans kids on a weekend fishing trip, received the 2024 Daytime Emmy® for Outstanding Short Form Program and GLAAD’s Special Recognition Award. The film premiered at SXSW in 2023 and was acquired by Netflix. Her feature directorial debut MAMA GLORIA, about a Black transgender elder activist, was a 2022 GLAAD Media Award nominee and broadcast on PBS. Her current feature LOCKED OUT, about the barriers to Black homeownership, won Best Documentary Feature at the American Black Film Festival.

Preceded by "Women Housing Women" (Community Visions, 1991).

This screening was programmed by Cornelius Moore.

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Contact Phone Number: 
2152224201
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Scribe Video Center

Event Type: 
Screening
Producers' Forum