American Masters: Celestine Tate Harrington (2025) Webby Nomination Project CC: (streaming on Disney+): NAACP Award Nomination Outstanding Short Form Series (2024) NAACP Award Nomination Outstanding Performance in a Short Form Series (2024) Urbanworld (2023) Hollyshorts (2023)
OREO: Slamdance (2022) Slamdance Best Supporting Actress nomination (2022) Disabled AF: Slamdance (2024) Moving Image (2024)
RJ Dawson
RJ Dawson’s early films include recognition from the Chicago Horror Film Festival and two nominations by Campus Movie Fest for Best Drama and Best Costume. After working as a 1st AD for several years, RJ decided to attend graduate school at SCAD for Film and Television. While there his script “Ashes” was the official selection of the Artist Alliance Screenplay Festival. He continued to distinguish himself as both a writer and director when he was selected to participate in the Savannah FIlm Festival Director’s Workshop. His early work gained him the Stanley Kamen Endowed Scholarship, allowing him to continue his education as a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute Conservatory. While at AFI he earned the Richard P. Rogers Spirit of Excellence Award for his work on his award winning thesis film, Gummi Bear, which was selected by AMC’s AllBlk streaming service. RJ’s focus is to approach stories with patience, craft, and heart. His desire is to speak to the universal human experience through under-explored and unique perspectives.
Cashmere Jasmine
Cashmere Jasmine is a Director of Afro-Caribbean descent who has worked across mediums including music video, independent film, and short-form digital media. After being diagnosed with End Stage Kidney Renal disease, she started her own media production company and produced several short films that went to dozens of festivals and garnered over 1.2 million views. In 2021, Cashmere was in the inaugural class of Amy Aniobi’s TRIBE, a mentorship program for TV writers, the Black Magic Collective’s All Access Fellowship, and RespectAbility’s Summer Entertainment Lab. She also received the Sundance Uprise grant for her short film, Oreo, which became a 2022 Slamdance Unstoppable Festival selection. Her feature Down the Rabbit Hole, about an irresponsible dialysis patient, earned her a spot in the Sundance Accessible Futures Intensive workshop. Her film for Disney’s Launchpad program has two NAACP award nominations and is now streaming on Disney+. Her documentary directorial debut is the Webby nominated American Masters: Renegades shorts series featuring overlooked disabled American icons, on Celestine Tate Harrington. She continues her doc work with the CurbCut Effect for American Experience, 98 Days: Last stand at City Hall on the protests of 2020 From Hits to Healing on the journey of Grammy award winning producer’s struggle to get a Kidney Transplant.
Producer
WEENIE: Buffer Film Festival (2019) 1.2 Million views
SIA: Film Pride- Brighton &Hove Pride LGBTQIA+ Film Festival (2022) Trans Stellar Film Festival (2022) Dayton Independent (2022) Black Alphabet Film Festival (2022) Afrikana (2022) Atlanta Black Film Festival (2022)Reel Q: Pittsburgh LGBTQ+ Film Festival (2022) Third Annual Social and Economic Justice Film Festival (2022)
Bombs Bursting in Air! Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series (2020) Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (2020) Vero Beach Wine+Film Festival (2020) Atlanta Women’s Film Festival (2020) Summer in the South (2020). Award Winner: Best Drama Short (2020) LA Shorts International (2020)