upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024

upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024

Tiona McClodden

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Executive Producer/Director of Harriet’s Gun Media is an award winning multi-media artist whose mission is to make the invisible, visible and humanize her subjects. Her feature-length documentary film, black./womyn.: conversations with lesbians of African descent, provides a platform for Black lesbians to speak for themselves and to confront the hyper-sexualized image of the Black lesbian. black./womyn. was awarded the Audience Award for Best Documentary by the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival{now QFest} in 2008. Tiona continues to develop and create films on progressive topics with the hope of directing a narrative feature-length project in the near future. She is currently in production with her next feature length documentary The Untitled Black Lesbian Elder Project, recently completed a short narrative film Bumming Cigarettes, and an experimental short series called Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic, which is an magical realism themed take on the Black American experience. tiona.m. was Leeway's first Art+Technology Resident in 2012 and received the Leeway Transformation Award in 2009 and the Art and Change Grant in 2007.

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