Shola Lynch
“It’s wonderful that Spelman has a documentary movie program — it’s the solely HBCU with one. My job is to construct on this excellent basis. The objective is to supply college students who perceive documentary strategies with agency grounding in our filmography, a essential eye and the craft of storytelling,” stated Lynch. “We’re bombarded with media, so to have the power to not solely be topic to it, but in addition to create it, is highly effective. Put one other manner, I wish to produce and empower a legion of Black girls storytellers.”
Previous to becoming a member of Spelman, Lynch served because the Curator of the Transferring Picture & Recorded Sound Division of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Heart for Analysis in Black Tradition for over 10 years. In 2016, she grew to become a member of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences.
The filmmaker is finest recognized for her function documentary “FREE ANGELA & All Political Prisoners” which acquired honorable point out on the Tribeca Movie Competition and gained a NAACP Picture Award. She can be recognized for the Peabody Award successful documentary “CHISHOLM ’72: Unbought & Unbossed.”
“Shola Lynch is a world-renowned documentarian and archivist, and the Division of Artwork and Visible Tradition is proud and excited to have her be a part of the school because the Diana King Endowed Professor in Movie, Filmmaking, Tv, & Associated Media,” stated Myra Greene, professor, chair of artwork & visible tradition and director of the images program at Spelman. “We all know that her analysis and teachings may have a deep influence on the neighborhood of documentarians we’re fostering right here within the division.”
Lynch lately accomplished manufacturing on an Apple Authentic movie set to launch in 2025, Quantity One on the Name Sheet, that celebrates Black achievement within the movie business and explores what it takes for Black actresses to search out success in Hollywood. Lynch is presently engaged on a documentary about American sprinter and World Report holder Florence Griffith Joyner, or ‘Flo-Jo,’ and has additionally been tapped to helm an upcoming documentary on the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson.
Along with her greater than 28 years making documentaries, Lynch has a M.A. in American historical past and public historical past administration from the College of California, Riverside, and a M.S. in journalism from Columbia College.
