For February's Black History Month we are featuring 4 amazing African-American women. This week's guest is Tracey Anarella, an award-winning documentary filmmaker. She shares her journey starting as an undergraduate at Cornell University, with the intention of going to medical school. Instead, she became a pharmaceutical researcher, then took time off to raise her children and received her MBA while going through a divorce. Tracey recently created a whole new career, embracing the world of filmmaking. She delights in her relationship with musician/composer Peter Fish, her true soul mate, who has inspired Tracey to jump into the mindset of loving what you do for a living! Tracey and Peter creatively collaborate on her films, traveling extensively for film shoots & festivals as Tracey is bubbling with ideas for new movies. Keep an eye out for a conversation with Peter Fish on a future podcast.


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Films: The topics of Tracey’s movies include black on black prejudice, a subway musician, inner city inspirations,  a renowned musician and the crippling impact of illiteracy. (Click on the film's title to watch a trailer)

Not Black Enough, an 83 minute film about class warfare in the African-American community, takes a sometimes humorous, always personal, brutally honest and insightful look into a seldom-explored phenomenon – the ostracizing of blacks by other blacks for being ‘Not Black Enough’. The film features, singer/actress Vanessa Williams, PBS Anchor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Rapper and Fox Network TV Show, “Empire” cast member Petey Pablo and Grammy Award winner Florence LaRue along with a host of other non-public figures. Available on Amazon Prime

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Livingston Taylor: Life is Good, a feature length documentary (81 minutes), portrays noted singer-songwriter, professor and philosopher Livingston Taylor as the unique one-off that he is – one part Mark Twain, one part raconteur, one part icon beloved educator, and one part music icon – and icon who is a large part of America’s first family of music. We witness as he gives back to the music that nurtured him through his songwriting, performance and teachings at the world renownBerklee College of Music. Indeed, Livingston is a man whose life is a testament to the concept that “Life Is Good” – An airplane-flying, motorbike-riding, singing-piano-playing-man, dead set on enriching the world he inhabits. The film also stars such notables as Carly Simon, Ian Anderson, Kate Taylor and Ben Taylor. “Livingston Taylor – Life Is Good” will be available for screening and distribution, September, 2017

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