Reel Sisters Award Ceremony 2022

2960 Broadway,New York NY 10027

07 October, 2022

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On Friday, Oct. 7, 2022 at 6 pm, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series will honor renowned Brooklyn actress Mugga, award-winning filmmakers Stacey L. Holman (The Black Church: This Is Our Story) and Booker T. Mattison (The Gilded Six Bits and The Sound of Christmas) with the Reel Sisters Trailblazer Award. Reel Sisters is celebrating our 25th Anniversary season! This is our first in-person awards ceremony since the pandemic. The celebration will include world premieres of short films produced by recipients of the Reel Sisters Micro Budget Film Fellowship and AMERICAN Triptypch! directed by Booker T. Mattison. The event will be held at the Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway. Tickets: $35 ($25 - Bring A Pal discount for 2+ tickets). Stay tuned for more information about our special guests! Please note: Purchase of all-access Reel Sisters Festival Pass includes one awards ceremony ticket. INFO: REEL SISTERS ALL ACCESS PASS. A portion of the ticket sales will support the Reel Sisters Micro Budget Film Fellowship. For information about the program and our fellows visit: Reel Sisters Micro Budget Fellowship. Donations are welcomed. NOTE: Columbia University requires proof of vaccination for entry. Mugga Her Artists Journey Began in Brooklyn, New York. At A very young age Mugga showed deep interest in the arts. First through Modern Dance, which she experienced through an aunt who was training as a dancer. Whenever there was A family get together or Holiday, she would put together song and dance routines to perform with her cousins for the family. She soon caught the Acting Bug after Playing Lorrell Robinson, in a neighborhood theater production of DREAM GIRLS. Mugga went on To Study Acting working with Prolific Acting Instructors at Weist-Barron. As well as training with instructors Tracey Moore, Joanna Beckson, Paul Calderon and others. But Mugga is no one trick pony. After being dared into it, Her Comedic abilities were soon displayed at Harlem New York’s, Uptown Comedy Club. She’s gone on to perform Stand Up Comedy in The UK and several cities in Europe for American military Troops and in many night club venues throughout The Caribbean and Many Clubs Stateside including Caroline’s on Broadway, Dangerfield’s, The Comedy store, The Laugh Factory, Stand Up New York and Countless Others over the years. While making a living doing stand Up comedy, she never forgot her First love...Acting. She would work the comedy circuit by night and by day, like any other serious Actor, she pounded the pavement auditioning, Mailing or dropping off headshots (In person, because that’s the way things were) and always taking classes honing her craft. Small parts in various local productions came and went but it wasn’t until She caught the eye and ear of Comedy Talent Scout, Bob Sumner, Of Russell Simmons, Def Comedy Jam did things begin to TAKE Off, as they say. She was invited to perform On the Show and Several television Stand Up Performances followed including, Def Comedy Jam, Showtime at The Apollo, BET’s Comic View3x and BBC’s Club Class. Mugga’s Def Jam performance led to a half page interview in the New York Times. Reel Sisters Trailblazer Awards 2022 Booker T. Mattison is an author and filmmaker who wrote the screenplay for and directed the film adaptation of Tiffany L. Warren's novel The Replacement Wife. The film, titled "The Sound of Christmas," stars R&B recording artist Ne-Yo, Serayah (Kingdom Business, Empire), and will air on BET next Christmas. Mattison also wrote and directed the film adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's classic story "The Gilded Six Bits," which aired on Showtime. It starred Chad L. Coleman ("The Walking Dead," "The Wire") in his first leading role. The film also starred T'keyah Crystal Keymah ("That's So Raven," "In Living Color"), and Wendell Pierce ("The Wire" "Treme'"). The Hollywood Reporter said, "Mattison's direction and feel for her characters match up to Hurston’s sterling piece of fiction...full of atmosphere and strongly developed characters." Mattison's short film "Ungubani (Who Are You?)" starring Al-Jaleel Knox ("Sweet Magnolias"), Leah Merritt ("Insatiable"), and T'Keyah Keymah is streaming on allblk. Mattison's sophomore novel Snitch received a starred review in Publishers Weekly that said, "Author and filmmaker Mattison's sophomore outing reads like its ready for screen adaptation... Mattison has a superb ear and his skills keep on growing." His debut novel Unsigned Hype was nominated for a South Carolina Book Award. Mattison received his Master of Fine Arts in film and television production from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and his Bachelor of Science in mass communication from Norfolk State University. Mattison has taught at the College of New Rochelle, Brooklyn College and Regent and Hampton Universities. Presently, he is a professor in the Department of Entertainment and Media Studies at the University of Georgia where he teaches directing, screenwriting and production capstone. For information visit www.bookertmattison.com. Stacey L. Holman is a Harlem-based filmmaker who’s directed/produced several award-winning projects including episode three of the 2018 PBS series Reconstruction: America After the Civil War hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. She was a producer on the critically acclaimed documentary Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities and served as Associate Producer on the Emmy award-winning film Freedom Riders produced/directed by Stanley Nelson. Additionally, Stacey was Coordinating Producer for Nelson’s Peabody Award-winning documentary Freedom Summer, and she was Co-Producer on Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band. Stacey’s short film Dressed Like Kings garnered the Tribeca Film Festival All-Access Award and aired on the WORLD Channel as part of the AfroPoP Shorts Program. She was the Series Producer/Director of Henry Louis Gates, Jr’s Black Church series The Black Church: This Is Our Story. Currently, she’s one of the producers/directors on Gates’ Making Black America: African American Social Networks airing on PBS in 2022. Reel Sisters will screen an episode of The Black Church: This Is Our Story on Oct. 22, 2022. Venue and time will be announced shortly. REEL SISTERS PRESENTS WORLD PREMIERE FOR TWO MICROBUDGET FILMS!Reel Sisters is proud to present a world premiere for two winners of our Micro Budget Fellows at our 25th Anniversary Award ceremony! Be the first to enjoy the shorts films produced by the award-winning creators who were recipients of Reel Sisters first Micro Budget Fellowship! CLICK HERE TO READ INFORMATION ON OUR FELLOWS FILM PROJECT: Gro Up Logline | Ollie, BK, and Carmichael are three girls who are NOT going back to Juvie. When given the opportunity to stay locked up or to "GRO UP", they decide to spend the summer sifting through soil and their shit. "GRO UP", a web series, was written by a writing team of 3 BIPOC women (African American/Jamaican, Puerto Rican/Italian, and South Asian). FILM PROJECT: Take Me Home (formerly Liminability) Logline | After their mother’s death, an intellectually disabled woman and her estranged sister must learn to communicate in order to care for each other.