The Team
Aubrey A. Daval
Director / Producer
Aubrey A. Daval is a multiform artist and filmmaker, based in New Orleans by way of New York City. She is a director with a distinguished reputation for art-forward storytelling and over 15 years of experience in independent and branded content. She began her career at PBS/WNET on the doc teams of African American Lives (now Finding Your Roots) and Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About. These early experiences cultivated her keen understanding of layered narratives. She is a Webby Nominee and 10x Telly award winner having interviewed hundreds of artists and collectors around the world. During her tenure as VP/Head of Content at Christie’s Auction House, she led global teams and lived in Hong Kong for 3 years, engaging audiences and producing multi-camera live-stream events exceeding one million views. Notably, she created the “Say it Loud” campaign featuring over 30 emerging black artists. She is a creative director working with agencies, museums and brands. Aubrey's journey is enriched by her first craft of dance having co-founded the Amalgamate Dance Company. She is also a roller skater and mom to a kick ass 7 year old drummer. She believes in the transformative power of bold creations and creators.
J. Alejandro Moreno
Director of Photography
Alejandro Moreno is a Cuban-Honduran American cinematographer based in New Orleans, LA, specializing in documentary and music video. His work is described as abstract, minimal, and hyper-nostalgic, and his images often include subtleties that invite his audience to explore their inner world. His work in cinema and photography can be best summed up as "if you've trusted [someone] with a secret." Alejandro is currently involved in several feature-length documentary productions, such as Turnover - a documentary about the charter school system's evolution in New Orleans post-Katrina - and Ancestral Artistry - a film about African Creole culture inspiring the aesthetic of New Orleans architecture. Notable highlights in music videos include work with Tank and The Bangas and Big Freedia. Alejandro has experience with 16mm and 35mm motion picture film, working with directors, such as Edward Buckles and Casey Shaw, both who are committed to preserving the culture of New Orleans on such formats.
Jane Geisler
Editor
Jane Geisler is an American film editor living in New Orleans. Editing across all formats and genres, her work is informed by a background in writing and an indefatigable curiosity. She co-wrote, edited, and conducted archival research for The Neutral Ground, which was nominated for Outstanding Historical Documentary at the 43rd News and Documentary Emmys, received a Special Jury Mention at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, and named LEH’s Humanities Documentary Film of the Year. She recently edited the Webby Award-winning series “The Trees Remember” directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Angela Tucker and co-edited Commuted, directed by Nailah Jefferson. Her work has been presented at the Tribeca Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, AFI Docs, IFFBoston, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, the New Orleans Film Festival, the Anthology Film Archives, and on Hulu, TIME, and PBS. She studied English at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia and film production at the London Film Academy in the UK.
Imani Uzuri
Story Consultant
Imani Uzuri, raised in rural North Carolina, is an award-winning vocalist, composer, librettist and experimental ethnographer whose work has been cited as having “subtlety and vision” by the New York Times. She composes, performs, and creates interdisciplinary works often dealing with themes of ancestral memory, magical realism, liminality, Black American vernacular culture, spirituality and landscape. Uzuri received her M.A. from Columbia University in African American studies researching the liturgy, performativity and "subversive salvation" of mystic, visual artist, musician, street preacher and prayer room practitioner Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-1980). Uzuri's essay "The Sacred Migration of Sister Gertrude Morgan" is included in Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History edited by Deb Willis etal. As a Park Avenue Armory Artist-in-Residence, Uzuri began developing her durational prayer performance Come On In The Prayer Room inspired by Sister Gertrude Morgan’s own “all white” Prayer Room which was located in the front room of her New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward home (that she christened the Everlasting Gospel Mission). In this work, Uzuri explores the intersection of spirituality, ritual, visuality, spectacle, and sound as well as celebrating the long held practice of ‘prayer rooms’ within Black American and Black Diasporic religious culture. Uzuri's Come On In The Prayer Room will culminate in an immersive ritual performance and prayer room sound art installation in New Orleans and a subsequent tour. Uzuri was a recent Harvard University W. E. B. DuBois Hutchins Center Fellow in support of her forthcoming experimental chamber opera Hush Arbor (The Opera).
Ingrid Nordstrom
Producer / Archivist
At the heart of everything Ingrid does is curiosity. That and a belief in the power of art, myth and the imagination. Ingrid began her career as an Actor and Dramaturg in New York. In 2012 she left acting to get her Master’s degree in Art History and rose quickly to the role of Senior Producer for Christie’s Content in the Americas Region. In addition to producing, writing and directing video content for Christie’s, she oversaw an in-house production team, directly under the VP of Content. While at Christie’s she received numerous awards. Selected credits: Studio Visit: Olga de Amaral, Studio Visit: Frank Stella, David Hockney Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), Margaret Hamilton: The woman who wrote the software that put a man on the moon (Webby nominee), Einstein: The God Letter.
King Britt
Composer
King James Britt (his real name) is a Philadelphia born, Pew Fellowship recipient, composer and dj. Traveling globally, he carries the history of his musical legacy into the future. Honing his skills as the first resident (’90) DJ at the legendary, Silk City, King established Back2Basics; a new and innovative music collaboration which merged a live band with a DJ performance. This format serendipitously proved a perfect fit for King to become the original DJ of the Grammy Award winning Digable Planets. After a world-wide three year tour, King decided to leave, focusing his own productions in electronic music. Since then, King has continued to DJ globally, spinning at thousands of clubs and festivals. King has performed his live work as himself and his sci fi pseudonym, Fhloston Paradigm, in a number of international, forward thinking performance contexts and spaces. As a composer and producer, he has collaborated with the likes of De La Soul, Madlib, Alarm Will Sound Orchestra, Saul Williams and many others, being called for remixes from an eclectic list of giants, including, Meredith Monk , Solange to Calvin Harris, and composing for films like Miami Vice. Most notably his re-interpretation of spiritual songs by Sister Gertrude Morgan, that pushed its way forward into pop culture through films, commercials and live shows, sending a message of love. His latest achievement is becoming an Assistant Teaching Professor at UCSD in the Computer Music Department, with focus on production and recording research.
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