Alile Sharon Larkin received her M.F.A. in film and television from UCLA. Co-founder of the Black Filmmakers Collective, she has received awards for her film A Different Image (1982). In addition to directing, she has also produced several television documentaries.
Filmography:
- Your Children Come Back to You (1979) - director, producer, writer
- A Different Image (1982) - director, producer, writer
- My Dream is to Marry an African Prince (1984) - producer
- What Color is God? (1986) - producer
- Miss Fluci Moses (1987) - director, producer, editor
- Dreadlocks and the Three Bears (1992) - director
- Mz Medusa (1998) - director
- The Blessing Way (2000) - cast
Jessie Maple was one of the earliest pioneers in filmmaking for black women. She spent the early part of her film career as a union cameraperson and assistant film editor for several television stations in New York. After helping open up the union to women in the early 1970s, she began producing short and feature length documentaries and later the award-winning film Will (1981) and Twice as Nice (1988).
Filmography:
- Methadone: Evil Spirit or Wonder Drug (1975-1976) - director, producer, writer
- Black Economic Power: Reality or Fantasy? (1977) - director, producer, writer, cinematographer
- Will (1981) - director, producer, writer
- Escape Artists (1982) - director
- Swish (1984) - director
- Twice as Nice (1988) - director
- Kiss Grandmama Goodbye (1992) - cinematographer
- It's You [music video] (1997) - director
Yvonne Welbon is an award winning independent filmmaker who holds a Ph.D. in radio/television/film from Northwestern University. One of her more recent projects, Sisters in Cinema (2003), is a documentary outlining the history of African American women directors.
Filmography:
- Monique (1991) - director, producer, writer, editor
- The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash (1992) - director, producer
- Missing Relations (1994) - director
- Mother of the River (1995) - associate producer
- Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself (1995) - director
- Compensation (1999) - associate producer
- Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100 (1999) - director, producer, writer
- Stray Dogs (2001) - producer
- Stranger Inside (2001) - associate producer
- E Minha Cara [aka That's My Face] (2002) - co-producer
- The Taste of Dirt (2002) - director
- Sisters in Cinema (2003) - director, producer, writer, narrator
