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WORK - Non-Scripted Series

Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip Hop (Netflix)

This timely limited doc series recontextualizes the role the irrepressible women of hip hop played throughout the revolutionary genre’s 50 years by reinserting them into the canon where they belong: at the center, from day one to present day. Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop premieres August 9th, only on Netflix.

2024 CRITICS CHOICE AWARD NOMINATED

2024 NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINATED

2023 CRITICS CHOICE AWARD NOMINATED

Premiered Aug 9, 2023 / Currently Streaming on Netflix

Served as Co-Executive Producer for Series

UN(RE)SOLVED

UN(RE)SOLVED is a multi-platform experience (documentary series, podcast) including an installation that acts as an interactive memorial for the victims of 150 unsolved racially motivated murders from the civil rights era.

Participants must speak victims’ names out loud in order to be able to view each victim’s story. Premiered in June 2021 online via Frontline/PBS.

The AR Installation premiered and was featured at Tribeca Film Festival, June 2021. and is currently on tour.

2023 PEABODY Nominated

2022 EMMY Winner / News & Documentary

"Outstanding Interactive Media: Innovation"

SXSW Innovation Award Winner 2022

2022 Golden Calf Nominated.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/unresolved/

Served as Producer for Ado Ato Pictures - Frontline/PBS

Model America (MSNBC)

"Model America,” an explosive four episode series that dissects America’s complicated relationship with race through the lens of the people of Teaneck, New Jersey, a “racial utopia” turned unlikely ground zero for the modern Black Lives Matter movement.

2023 EMMY Nominated / New & Documentary

Episodes aired September & October 2022 on MSNBC -

Currently Streaming on Peacock

Served as Supervising Producer for Anchor Entertainment

WORK

The Sound She Saw

The Sound She Saw is a documentary film featuring contemporary, ground-breaking Black women photographers.

The film reveals the history & struggle of Black women photographers while showcasing and celebrating their work and answering the question:

What happens when a Black woman photographer has the agency and the control to reverse the gaze and see the world through her unique lens? The photographers featured in The Sound She Saw challenge the status quo by collectively redefining the narrative, image by image.

FEATURED MUSEUM SCREENINGS

Brooklyn Museum - Feb. 2023

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) - June 2023

Pérez Art Museum (PAMM) - Oct. 2023

The National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian - Feb. 2024

The Newark Museum of Art - Mar. 2024

California African American Museum - Summer 2024

SYMPOSIUM / CONFERENCE

'On the Edge of Visibility : An International Symposium'

Oct 19-20, 2023 - Perez Art Musuem, Miami

FILM FESTIVALS

13th Annual Bronzelens FIlm Festival 2022 / Nominated for BEST DOCUMENTARY

Urbanworld Film Festival 2022 / Honorable mention for the Ally Creative Producer Award

St. Louis International Film Festival 2022

Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival 2022

Serving as Writer, Director and Executive Producer

https://thesoundshesaw.com/

Image from featured photographer, Fabiola Jean-Louis.

BTS Still of featured photographer, Adreinne Waheed 6/2021

WORK - Scripted Series / Narratives

The Table

Seven years, two people, one life. The journey of London and Ed's relationship is told over seven years at their dining room table.

Created, written and directed by award winning filmmaker Caralene Robinson, this eight episode digital series narrates the life of a modern day Black couple. Ed, raised in Newark, is an up and coming Wall Street trader who hustled his way from the mailroom to the trading floor. London, the product of a Black yogi and white physician from Sedona, Arizona, has an alternative view of the world. The two could not be more different, but embark on a shared journey of life and love.

"The Table" explores a range of themes, including the non-monolithic experience of Black people, privilege, impostor syndrome and education versus street experience. Each episode will showcase a snapshot of Ed and London's relationship over the seven year cycle. From their initial one night stand, marriage, family and challenges, we see the inner workings of a Black relationship in its most vulnerable place - the home.

Currently STREAMING on BlackOckTV

FILM FESTIVALS:

American Black Film Festival (ABFF) / June 2023

Essence Film Festival / July 2023

Micheaux Film Festival / July 2023

BronzeLens Film Festival / Aug 2023

Served as: 'Produced By:' - 8 Episodes

Supervising Producer - 8 Episodes

Director - 1 Episode

Ms/Manage

A dramedy about being “one of the few”.

A queer, black professional attempts to navigate the challenges of

breaking the glass ceiling in corporate America

while fielding pressure from her partner to start a family.

The 8 episode web series premiered November 2021

now available on BlackOakTv

Served as Co-Producer

The Bill

Award Winning Short Film: Lena and ten other women couldn’t be more excited to celebrate Barbie's 35th birthday however when the unexpectedly huge bill arrives the festivities dissolves into drama.

Served as Executive Producer & Producer.

WORK - Documentaries & Sesame Workshop

Burn Motherfucker, Burn!

On April 29, 1992, Los Angeles exploded when four police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. But the city had been smoldering for years. The provocative documentary looks at how decades of racial tensions, injustice and a trouble relationship between the LAPD and the African-American community led to the uprising.

Chris Brown & ELMO, "Signs"

"See the Signs" is a song sung by Chris Brown and Elmo on Sesame StreetThe song was nominated for a 2008 Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Original Song in a Children's/Animated Series

America By The Numbers with Maria Hinoiosa

Behind every number, there’s a story. America By The Numbers with Maria Hinojosa is a PBS documentary series—the first to focus on the dramatic demographic shifts taking place in this country – exploring underreported stories from every corner of the nation, the series reveals the human face of the biggest population change in U.S. history.

WORK - Museum & Gallery Curation

M'DEAR: Exploring the Black Maternal Exhibit Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) / Fri-Sun May 5 - Oct. 29 2023

The M'Dear Project is a multi-media exhibition of paintings, sculpture, photography, textile art, video, audio/oral pieces and installations honoring the great Mother, the Matriarch, the feminine present throughout the diasporic community. Works in the exhibition seek to capture the essence and the power of the Great Mother, the nurturer, the negotiator, the inter-mediator and savior, The exhibit pushes the viewer to reconsider the wisdom, power and grace of M'Dear who's council is needed in this chaotic climate. She is essential and critical in the fight and preservation of our collective humanity.

https://mocada.org/mdear-the-black-maternal/

MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora Presents Altar, Ritual, Offerings / Photoville NYC & LA 2018

https://v21artspace.com/altar-prayer-ritual-offerings-photoville-2018

FOR US, BY US - Long Gallery Harlem Jan/Feb 2017-2020

Howard University Alumni Club of Greater New York fundraising Bison Art Show in partnership with Long Gallery Harlem featuring alumni artists, a percentage of proceeds benefiting incoming students.

PRESS

LADIES FIRST: A Story Women in Hip Hop Nominated AGAIN for a 2024 Critics Choice Award!

Currently streaming on Netflix!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/2024-critics-choice-real-tv-awards-nominations-full-list-nominees-1235897773/

The Table premieres on Valentine's Day

We are happy to announce that TheTable will premiere VALENTINE’S DAY ❤️, Wednesday,

February 14 on @blackoaktv at 12am!

New episodes drop every Friday

so tune in and get your dose of real love!

https://blavity.com/entertainment/the-table-black-oak-tv-series

Ladies First on the TODAY'S SHOW

Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush celebrate

Ladies First on the Today show!

Currently Streaming on Netflix

https://www.today.com/video/three-empowering-documentaries-for-women-and-girls-194891845662

A New Netflix Docuseries Takes on the Unsung Legacy of Women in Hip-Hop - Aug. 18, 2023

Vogue Magazine praises doc series -

'Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip Hop

Currently Streaming on Netflix

https://www.vogue.com/article/ladies-first-women-hip-hop-netflix

'Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip Hop' Netflix Doc-Series

'Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip Hop

Currently Streaming on Netflix

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/aug/09/ladies-first-netflix-women-hip-hop-history-documentary

The Table on the Tamron Hall Show - 5/26/23

Boss Up: Tamron Hall welcomes, TV personality and businesswoman, BEVERLY “BEVY” SMITH to talk about her new show, “THE TABLE.”

https://tamronhallshow.com/episodes/friday-5-26-2023/

2023 News & Documentary Nominated - 8/23

'MODEL AMERICA' is nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy in the Outstanding Social Issue Documentary Category

https://deadline.com/2023/07/news-documentary-emmy-nominations-2023-list-1235449055/#recipient_hashed=aeb82ac4c19b008c1fa864b8ad53f5852c277bfe650118db0a1221a7045e1fb6&recipient_salt=24a22368f78c54546c33f335902f24928a65c30ffc69b41613a566d8ea75a652&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=Deadline_BreakingNews&utm_content=452304_07-27-2023&utm_term=16704630

Governors Island ~ M'DEAR: Exploring the Black Maternal 2023

https://www.govisland.com/things-to-do/events/mdear-reclaiming-our-seat-at-the-table

PIX 11 News - M'DEAR: Exploring the Black Maternal - 5/5/23

M'DEAR featured on PIX 11 News

https://pix11.com/video/governors-island/8624062/

The Sound She Saw - Article by Art Net News - Jan. 4, 2023

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-sound-she-saw-crystal-whaley-documentary-black-women-photographers-2237801

PRODUCER REEL & DIRECTOR REEL

Writer, director and multiple EMMY Award winning producer with a proven track record of developing, supervising & producing, award winning premium series TV (scripted/non-scripted), commercials, music videos, indi films, digital series, nationally syndicated & Peabody nominated documentaries for Netflix, MSNBC, TLC, Frontlines/PBS.

DIRECTOR REEL https://www.canva.com/design/DAGKeppCu_g/oNqsHVx57gRhmNVWn4x8VA/view?utm_content=DAGKeppCu_g&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor