Morgan B. Powell
Morgan B. Powell
2023 TRANS & NONBINARY COHORT
Independent filmmaker Morgan B. Powell (they/she/he) is a Black trans-nonbinary New York-born and based writer, director, producer, and photographer. They have directed and produced music videos for Yaya Bey, NAIMA, Dreamcastmoe, Ivy Sole and Topaz Jones. Morgan has directed and produced episodes and campaigns for Freeform’s "The Come Up," Google, Mass Appeal, VICE, TheGrio, Columbia Sportswear and independent documentaries. They received their B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from Spelman College and an M.A. in Digital Cinema Production from The New School. Morgan writes and directs stories of Afro-futures, solutions to present injustices, and visual prose in response to lessons of the past. Their work is grounded in their experience as an abolitionist organizer and ethnographer, with the purpose of creating critically conscious art. They center the narratives of marginalized people, using storytelling as their liberation toolkit’s sharpest weapon. Morgan employs a Black queer feminist lens to explore healing, childhood, spirituality, justice, Black folklore, and all the nuances of the human condition. Morgan is the recipient of the 2021 Stowe Story Labs Diverse Voices Fellowship; a graduate of the 2022 Writers Guild Foundation Support Staff Training Program; a 2023 Screenwriting Fellow of The Center For Cultural Power's Disruptors Fellowship; a 33rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards nominated Producer on Hulu’s “The Come Up;” and Producer of Sundance Film Festival 2024 Official Selection’s “Grace.” Morgan has helped secure grants as Producer on both "Grace" (2023) and "dey/dem: a choreo-doc" (2023) from The Future of Film Is Female, Trujulo Media, Kickstarter, Inside Out Festival, Idea Capital, Southern Documentary Fund, Arts & Entertainment Atlanta, and National Black Arts Foundation.
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