FILM
“I’m interested in the lives of Black folk as the subject. Not the predicate, not the tangent. These stories deserve to be told — not as sociology, not as spectacle, not as a singular event that happens every so often – but regularly and purposefully as truth and as art on an ongoing basis.
-Ava Duvernay
CLIENT: AVA DUVERNAY, ARRAY NOW
Time Magazine I
Urban World 2021 I Official Selection
Black Harvest Film Festival - Official Selection 2021
“Would You Kill God Too?
Production Credits: Written by WJ Lofton | Directors: WJ Lofton + Natalie Lauren
Creative Director: Miles |
Producer/UPM: Shawn Craig |
LEAP is the Law Enforcement Accountability Project, a propulsive fund dedicated to empowering activists as they pursue narrative change around the police abuse of Black People. Administered by the non-profit ARRAY Alliance, the LEAP fund commissions projects across multiple disciplines including film, literature, poetry, theater, dance, fine art and music. Learn more at www.leapaction.org.
CLIENT: ROSTRUM RECORDS + NATIVE NO.
Artist: Natalie Lauren
HAPPY TEARS
Directed by Natalie Lauren and Jordan Mcnear
Edited by Natalie Lauren
CLIENT: ROSTRUM RECORDS + NATIVE NO.
Artist: Natalie Lauren
GOD MORNING
Executive Producer: Natalie Lauren Directed by Natalie Lauren & William James Lofton.
Shawn Michael Craig Line Producer/UPM;
Shawn Michale Craig
DP: Shawn Michael Craig
Camera Operato/1AC: Jerrell Lamar Camera Operator/2AC: Caleb Seales Key Grip: Jason Green Editor: Shawn Michael Craig & Caleb Seales Photographer & Set Assistant: Miles Freed Stylist: Caresse Dionne Spencer Styling Assistant: Dana Watkins Make Up: Melissa Ocasio Hair: Nyema Bennett
CLIENT: EMPIRE DISTRIBUTION + NATIVE NO.
Artist: Swoope
CUZ WE CAN
Directed : WJ Lofton & Natalie Lauren @mrjamespoetry@natalielaurensims Cinematography : Shawn Michael Craig @shawnmichaelcraig Edited : Mikael Coleman Director of Photography: Miles Freed Gaffer: Noah Clement AC: Jerrell Lamar Styling : Dana Watkins Location @stylesmanor GA