Michèle Stephenson
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Biography
Michèle Stephenson is an American documentary filmmaker, artist, and author who pulls from her Panamanian and Haitian roots, and experience as a human rights attorney to tell compelling, deeply personal stories that are created by, for, and about communities of color. With spouse Joe Brewster, Stephenson founded the Rada Film Group. While raising a family in Brooklyn, New York, they directed and produced documentary and fiction films. In 2008, they directed Slaying Goliath, a documentary that follows 10 days in the life of their son's fifth grade basketball team in Harlem, New York, as they e…
Sons of Detroit
2025 · Executive Producer
True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power
2025 · Director
The Age of Water
2024 · Producer
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
2023 · Producer
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
2023 · Writer
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
2023 · Director
Black Life: Untold Stories
2023 · Director
Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games
2023 · Producer
Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games
2023 · Director
Subject
2023 · Self
For Our Girls
2021 · Director
Elena
2021 · Director
Elena
2021 · Writer
Decolonizing Mental Health
2021 · Director
The Changing Same - Episode 1: The Dilemma
2021 · Producer
The Changing Same - Episode 1: The Dilemma
2021 · Director
Stateless
2020 · Additional Camera
Stateless
2020 · Production Sound Mixer
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2020 · Storyboard Artist
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2020 · Translator
Stateless
2020 · Director
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2020 · Writer
Stateless
2020 · Producer
Drawn to the Mat
2019 · Director
Drawn to the Mat
2019 · Producer
The Changing Same
2018 · Producer
The Changing Same
2018 · Writer
The Changing Same
2018 · Director
A Mother's Dream
2016 · Director
A Mother's Dream
2016 · Producer
A Conversation with Black Women on Race
2015 · Director
A Conversation with Black Women on Race
2015 · Producer
A Conversation With Latinos on Race
2015 · Director
A Conversation With Asian-Americans on Race
2015 · Director
A Conversation with White People on Race
2015 · Director
A Conversation with White People on Race
2015 · Producer
A Conversation About Growing Up Black
2015 · Producer
American Promise
2013 · Self
American Promise
2013 · Director
American Promise
2013 · Producer
Coming Home: The Dry Storm
2010 · Director
Coming Home: The Dry Storm
2010 · Producer
Slaying Goliath
2008 · Director
Slaying Goliath
2008 · Writer
Slaying Goliath
2008 · Producer
Faces of Change
2006 · Director
Faces of Change
2006 · Producer
The Killing Zone
2003 · Producer
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