Maria Judice is a visual storyteller working in cinema, photography, and art. She received her M.F.A. from CalArts in Film/Video. As an award-winning writer/director, her experience ranges across new media platforms, traditional media, technology, public art/civic engagement and subject matters left of center. She leads the charge as a producer with essential business, marketing, and creative skills. With a practice, autonomy first and platform second, she maintains mobility and adaptation new technologies. Her artwork is about community, space, and place.
Her short film PALM TREES won the Adrienne Shelly Award for excellence in directing and aired on BET's “Lens on Talent”. Awards for the best narrative film MOONLESS and screenplay ORBITERS were also garnered. SPACED and MOONLESS have screened around the world and are distributed by Flourishing Films.
WIRED magazine called her a “filmmaker provocateur” bridging technology thinking with art making. Futurism and technology feed her love for science fiction, surrealism and fantasy. Feature projects in development KILL, TIME. and EVENTUALLY, EVERYTHING IS FINE, view sci-fi through a lo-fi lens. A CERTAIN GRACE continues her conversation with San Francisco in making the invisible -- seen. Currently, she is working on her second long-form film "IN THIS WORLD". She can be found in her hometown of San Francisco kicking around the fog
She is currently in post production of her feature film Elephant due to come out soon.
Deshuna Spencer, a social entrepreneur, is the Founder/CEO of Kweli TV an interactive video streaming network for the global black consumer. KweliTV is dedicated to the stories, issues and culture of the global black community. The platform offers a vast selection of on-demand independent films, web shows, news and historical programming, and documentaries specifically of the black experience from the US and across the globe. It will be accessible on smartTVs, internet TV devices (such as Apple TV and Roku), smartphones, game consoles, computers and tablets through a video app. KWELI (KWEH lee) means “TRUTH” IN SWAHILI.
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Music Featured on the Show: Intro I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Ft: J Lang, Morusque
Outro The Vendetta by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/58628 Ft: Apoxode
