The Creative Outsiders

Alicia Rollins is a scientist, creative director, and author. Aliicia first nurtered her creativity through a 12-year matriculation through dance education which culminated as a competitive dancer at Southern University. After graduating with a degree in Biology and subsequently Clinical Lab Sciences, her work as a scientist began and her creative work continued. She began teaching dance and creating projects for authors and artists alike. Her specialties include choreography, development of creative content, photography, creative direction, video direction, and script development

Company's site is rsgmediaco.com

Oliver Tides is a Cinematographer from Southern California. She has a passion for helping others to become inspired by their own lives, and for working with a diverse client base. She often shoots with a Super 8M Film for her shorts to create a vintage feel, but is equally comfortable with modern equipment.

On This Episode:

How Oliver started making movies at the age of 13.

Originally from the Bay Area, Zoë Salnave has worked in film and creative writing since she was 15 years old. Her passion for filmmaking grew as a young documentarian discovering narratives rooted in issues of diversity, community, sustainable living, and urban rehabilitation. Her work has been recognized at film festivals across the world and she has won numerous awards for her documentary work with urban development, community gardening programs, and bringing awareness to youth initiatives in Berkeley and Oakland, California. In 2010 she received a Resolution Award from the State of California by Senators Loni Hancock and Nancy Skinner for her work in film.

In 2015 she graduated from Mills College, a historic all-women’s college in Oakland with a B.A. in Creative Storytelling and Cultural Perspectives with an emphasis in Poetry and Afro-Caribbean Studies.

She was accepted to the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts in 2016 and has since been honing her craft in Writing, Directing, and Producing narrative film. Zoë explores the genres of drama, comedy, and the combination of the two.

Find Zoë's documentary work at www.zoealycesalnave.com

On this episode we cover:

Do you need a filmmaking niche

Born Christina Faith in Atlantic City, New Jersey to a casino executive and drug-dealing hustler, Christina Faith’s life journey is the kind of school of hard knocks story that’s filled with all the complexities and nuances of a woman bound for greatness. After losing her father to an overdose at nine years old, Faith’s mother worked hard to provide the best education possible to her children. That single-minded agenda led to—a student with a deeply creative mind and compassionate, justice-oriented heart—graduating from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice and Africana studies. She was the first and only college graduate of her mother’s children. 

After a decade of developing her craft through production projects such as Nickey’s Flesh, Grind House, and Haunted, Faith and her husband, photographer Allen Johnson, formed Creative Thought Media (CTM), a full service media company and artist collective. In December 2016, CTM is releasing its first Internet web series, Single and Anxious, a captivating and entertaining journey through the relational tensions of crime and love surrounding urban millennials who are struggling with complicated life decisions.  

A skilled director, producer, and writer, Christina Faith is a powerful voice; a visionary bringing to life stories that have been lost or marginalized in today’s culture.

On This Episode We Cover

- working for free as a filmmaker

- getting her MFA from YouTube and Google University

- how she was able to film her project Single and anxious with no money

LeeAnn is a writer, director, and artist reared in Germany now residing in Atlanta, GA. Before the age of 18, she successfully amassed a handful of awards for her directorial presentations. She received her BA in television production from Clark Atlanta University. Aside from filmmaking, LeeAnn is also a photographer, a contributing writer for Blavity + Black Girl In Om, and brews a bombass kombucha.

On This Episode:

What film equipment does she use?

Why did food dairies choose you?

How do I get started as a filmmaker?

Chasing the stories she wanted to tell.