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The Courage To Be Seen | Kira Powell, Part 2
Riding (0:00). Kira on creativity beyond genre (3:10), the creative toolbox (6:05), Kira discusses the power of truth in performance (8:30), encouraging independence in children, the courage it takes to let go and trust the process and yourself (12:00).
WATCH ON YOUTUBE @ https://youtu.be/-Xr-upxDIvk
Support Us via Patreon @CreativeMamasUnplugged
Hosts: Cherice Barton and Shelly Hutchinson
Guest: Kira Powell
Producer: Jessica O’Keefe, Breatheasy Productions
Follow Kira:
Website: https://www.kirapowell.com/
Instagram @itskirapowell
IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2451581/
AWD https://www.allianceofwomendirectors.org/find-a-director/director/kira-powell/
Kira’s Linktr.ee @ https://linktr.ee/KiraPowell
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BIO:
Kira Powell is an award-winning, NAACP Image Award-nominated writer-director and SAG-AFTRA actor of African American and Ecuadorian descent. She holds an MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute Conservatory. Whether in coming-of-age drama or psychological horror, her films explore identity and inheritance, often through multiracial and immigrant experiences, examining the consequences of love under pressure — how devotion, protection, and survival shape people, for better and for worse.
Kira received a Directors Guild of America Jury Award at the 2024 DGA Student Awards for Outstanding Directing for her AFI thesis coming-of-age short BEST EYES, which premiered at the Academy Award®–qualifying Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) and has been nominated for Outstanding Short Form (Live Action) at the 57th NAACP Image Awards. BEST EYES also won First Place in the Afro-Latino Short Film Competition sponsored by Lexus and presented by the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) and the Latino Entertainment Journalists Association (LEJA).
Kira’s short films have screened at festivals including Urbanworld, Screamfest, Tallgrass, and Black Harvest Film Festival. Her award-winning one-woman show CAUGHT IN THE MIX, about Black–Latinx identity, was staged at multiple venues across Los Angeles and recognized for its social impact, laying the groundwork for the themes she continues to explore on screen.
As an actor, Kira has appeared in film, television, and numerous national commercials. Her credits include the indie cult hit THE ENDLESS, directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Moon Knight, Loki), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival; Jif’s “That Jif’ing Good” campaign—named one of Adweek’s Top Commercials of the Year; and collaborations with directors Larry Charles (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm) and John Hillcoat (The Road).
She is currently developing a slate of film and television projects.
Outside of filmmaking, she’s traveled to over 40 countries and has a deep love for the theater. You’ll usually find her discovering a new restaurant, in the audience at a live show, or onstage.
GRANTS & ACCOLADES
LABS, FELLOWSHIPS & PROGRAMS
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By Breatheasy ProductionsRiding (0:00). Kira on creativity beyond genre (3:10), the creative toolbox (6:05), Kira discusses the power of truth in performance (8:30), encouraging independence in children, the courage it takes to let go and trust the process and yourself (12:00).
WATCH ON YOUTUBE @ https://youtu.be/-Xr-upxDIvk
Support Us via Patreon @CreativeMamasUnplugged
Hosts: Cherice Barton and Shelly Hutchinson
Guest: Kira Powell
Producer: Jessica O’Keefe, Breatheasy Productions
Follow Kira:
Website: https://www.kirapowell.com/
Instagram @itskirapowell
IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2451581/
AWD https://www.allianceofwomendirectors.org/find-a-director/director/kira-powell/
Kira’s Linktr.ee @ https://linktr.ee/KiraPowell
Follow Us:
Instagram @creativemamasunplugged
Facebook @creativemamasunplugged
Apple Podcasts @CreativeMamasUnplugged
Spotify @CreativeMamasUnplugged
Amazon Music @CreativeMamasUnplugged
YouTube @CreativeMamasUnplugged
iHeart Radio @CreativeMamasUnplugged
Podbean @CreativeMamasUnplugged
BIO:
Kira Powell is an award-winning, NAACP Image Award-nominated writer-director and SAG-AFTRA actor of African American and Ecuadorian descent. She holds an MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute Conservatory. Whether in coming-of-age drama or psychological horror, her films explore identity and inheritance, often through multiracial and immigrant experiences, examining the consequences of love under pressure — how devotion, protection, and survival shape people, for better and for worse.
Kira received a Directors Guild of America Jury Award at the 2024 DGA Student Awards for Outstanding Directing for her AFI thesis coming-of-age short BEST EYES, which premiered at the Academy Award®–qualifying Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) and has been nominated for Outstanding Short Form (Live Action) at the 57th NAACP Image Awards. BEST EYES also won First Place in the Afro-Latino Short Film Competition sponsored by Lexus and presented by the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) and the Latino Entertainment Journalists Association (LEJA).
Kira’s short films have screened at festivals including Urbanworld, Screamfest, Tallgrass, and Black Harvest Film Festival. Her award-winning one-woman show CAUGHT IN THE MIX, about Black–Latinx identity, was staged at multiple venues across Los Angeles and recognized for its social impact, laying the groundwork for the themes she continues to explore on screen.
As an actor, Kira has appeared in film, television, and numerous national commercials. Her credits include the indie cult hit THE ENDLESS, directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Moon Knight, Loki), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival; Jif’s “That Jif’ing Good” campaign—named one of Adweek’s Top Commercials of the Year; and collaborations with directors Larry Charles (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm) and John Hillcoat (The Road).
She is currently developing a slate of film and television projects.
Outside of filmmaking, she’s traveled to over 40 countries and has a deep love for the theater. You’ll usually find her discovering a new restaurant, in the audience at a live show, or onstage.
GRANTS & ACCOLADES
LABS, FELLOWSHIPS & PROGRAMS