Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
Poet, Egyptolotist, cosmologist, historian, activist, bandleader, musician… jazz pioneer Sun Ra was all of these. In this illuminating biography, Christine Turner takes us on a complex journey through the life of a complex man who either was born in Birmingham, Alabama, sent from Saturn, or both. With his band the Arkestra he extended the boundaries of free-form jazz, put his own mark on the standards, pursued forays into electronic music, yet could be just as inspired to riff on “Over the Rainbow.” His musical mission also was rooted as an agent toward advancing Afrofuturism, mixing interstellar metaphors (“space is the place”) and his own scientific explanations (“transmolecularization”) with the state of Black life in America. Turner gracefully balances recollections from the Arkestra’s devout, still-in-awe band members and dancers, comments from big-fan historians, scholars and other musicians, and the musings of Sun Ra himself with unforgettable performance footage and scenes from a self-produced film to paint a portrait — informative, enriching and at times mind-blowing — of a man who was as much a visionary as a he was a musician.—Brian Gordon
Post Supervisor, for Firelight Films
Official Selection at Tribeca Film Festival 2025
Boil Alert
Feature documentary following Canadian activist Layla Staats as she embarks on a dual journey to explore the Indigenous relationship to water as well as her own identity struggles she has grappled with her entire life as a Mohawk Woman
Post Producer, for Seeing Red Media
Official Selection at TIFF 2023
Sound of the Police
Feature length documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Stanley Nelson that takes an in-depth look at the fraught relationship between African Americans and law enforcement from slavery to the present.
Post Supervisor, for Firelight Films
Nominated for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary Emmy
Prince Andrew: Banished
Feature-length documentary detailing the story of how, through arrogance and lust, Prince Andrew's scandals and his friendship with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein nearly sank the British monarchy.
Post Supervisor, for Blue Ant Studios
Look at Me!: XXXTENTACION
Feature-length documentary that explores how Florida teenager Jahseh Onfroy became SoundCloud rapper XXXTENTACION, one of the most streamed artists on the planet. Through frank commentary from family, friends and romantic partners, and unseen archival footage, director Sabaah Folayan offers a sensitive portrayal of an artist whose acts of violence, raw musical talent and open struggles with mental health left an indelible mark on his generation before his death at the age of 20.
Post Producer, for Fader Films
Official Selection at SXSW 2022 and CPH:DOX 2022
Storm Lake
Feature-length documentary following a local family-run newspaper in Storm Lake, Iowa.
Associate Producer
2022 News & Doc Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary
2022 Peabody Nominee for Best Documentary
2021 Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at AFI Docs
2021 Best Documentary Feature at Woodstock Film Festival
Clothed Minds
Short documentary about how dress codes in schools negatively impact young Black girls.
Editor and Producer
2021 Best Documentary Film at Female Voices Rock Festival and MOM Film Festival
Fierce Funny & Fly
Feature length documentary about the origins of an all Black, all female comedy festival in New Orleans
Editor
Official Selection of the New Orleans Second Line Film Festival 2020
Nominee for Best Documentary in the Black New Orleans Film Festival 2021