Michèle Stephenson

The Age of Water (2024)

When the water in her small Mexican town proves to be radioactive, a young mom suddenly finds herself leading a local resistance movement. Her life is upended when she has to face a powerful and corrupt government hellbent on burying the truth. ...

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2023)

Intimate vérité, archival footage, and visually innovative treatments of poetry take us on a journey through the dreamscape of legendary queer poet Nikki Giovanni as she reflects on her life and legacy. ...

Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games (2023)

An illuminating look at the influence that hand games played by Black girls has had on the American creative landscape. ...

For Our Girls (2021)

Black women have played critical roles in all areas of the social justice movement but are often denied the platform they deserve. For Our Girls is a remix of the 2015 New York Times Op-Doc" A CONVERSATION WITH BLACK WOMEN ON RACE." It explores the stigmas ...

Elena (2021)

In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, on the basis of anti-black racism. Fast-forward to 2013, the Dominican Republic's Supreme Court stripped the citizenship of anyone with Haitia ...

Decolonizing Mental Health (2021)

Like other healthcare industrial complexes, the mental health field operates around a centre defined by a whiteness of theory and practice. It's a colonization that has rarely ever been questioned. ...

The Changing Same - Episode 1: The Dilemma (2021)

The Changing Same is a magical realist, immersive, episodic virtual reality experience where the participant travels through time and space to witness the connected historical experiences of racial injustice in America. ...

Stateless (2020)

Director Michèle Stephenson's new documentary follows families of those affected by the 2013 legislation stripping citizenship from Dominicans of Haitian descent, uncovering the complex history and present-day politics of Haiti and the Dominican Republic ...

Drawn to the Mat (2019)

After learning yoga changes one woman's life, she brings its transformative power to her community of working-class African Americans. Together, they realize the power of mind, body, spirit and community. ...

The Changing Same (2018)

Eighty years after the lynching of Claude Neal, Florida's last spectacle killing, his ghost arises from the grave and we are all better off for it. In the Florida Panhandle lies the provincial town of Marianna, Florida, where one native resident runs a pa ...

A Mother's Dream (2016)

A Conversation with Black Women on Race (2015)

In this short documentary, black women talk about the challenges they face in society. ...

A Conversation with White People on Race (2015)

This short documentary features interviews with white people on the challenges of talking about race. ...

A Conversation About Growing Up Black (2015)

In this short documentary, young black men explain the particular challenges they face growing up in America. ...

American Promise (2013)

In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, as they started kindergarten at the prestigious Dalton School just as the private institut ...

Coming Home: The Dry Storm (2010)

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina the New Orleans City Council decides to demolish public housing leaving thousands of people without homes. Staging a courageous battle that reminds us of how much home means to us all, residents became activists, attracting ...

Slaying Goliath (2008)

SLAYING GOLIATH takes an unprecedented intimate look at the world of amateur youth basketball through the eyes of the New York Select Huskies team as they seek to win the AAU National Basketball Championship. The grueling price the team must pay to win exp ...

The Killing Zone (2003)

Killing Zone is the story of an affluent Harlem psychiatrist living an unexamined life until his adoptive father- a doctor who plucked him from a Nigerian refugee camp as a child - is gunned down by an eleven-year-old in Brooklyn. In an instant, everything ...

The Keeper (1995)

Paul Lamont, a corrections officer and law student, leads a comfortable if culturally bankrupt, middle-class existence. Lamont's marriage is already in trouble when he bails out a mysterious Haitian, Jean Baptiste, in the belief that Baptiste has been wron ...

Subject (2023)

In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences – good, bad, and complicated – of having your life shared on screen. Featuring the protagonists of acclaimed documentaries The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wol ...

American Promise (2013)

In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, as they started kindergarten at the prestigious Dalton School just as the private institut ...