News & Screenings

Being (the Digital Griot) brings poetry and decolonization to Sundance
At the 40th Sundance Film Festival, Being (the Digital Griot) – Rashaad Newsome’s non-binary AI – will read their poetry and lead a workshop to...
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Get Your 10s receives ITVS funding
Our feature doc-in-progress Get Your 10s secured major funding through ITVS, the primary funder of independent documentaries on public television – guaranteeing us a wide...
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Johnny receives Marcus Transformative Research Award
Johnny was selected from among many incredible scholars at San Francisco State University to receive a Marcus Transformative Research Award. The award provides a one-semester...
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Being (the Digital Griot) brings poetry and decolonization to Sundance
At the 40th Sundance Film Festival, Being (the Digital Griot) – Rashaad Newsome’s non-binary AI – will read their poetry and lead a workshop to...
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Get Your 10s receives ITVS funding
Our feature doc-in-progress Get Your 10s secured major funding through ITVS, the primary funder of independent documentaries on public television – guaranteeing us a wide...
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Johnny receives Marcus Transformative Research Award
Johnny was selected from among many incredible scholars at San Francisco State University to receive a Marcus Transformative Research Award. The award provides a one-semester...
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Get Your 10s selected as DocPitch finalist
Our film @getyour10s was selected as a finalist for DocPitch, a prestigious grant that funds documentaries. Though we didn’t win, we got $5000 in production...
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Build or Destroy premieres in festivals and museums
Build or Destroy, an animated experimental short that Johnny produced, screened in festivals including Outfest, Outfest Fusion, Choreoscope (Barcelona), Seattle Queer Film Festival and Newfest,...
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Get Your 10s wraps primary production at Assembly exhibition
After 6 intense weeks, we emerged from Rashaad Newsome’s mind-blowing exhibition and performance at NYC’s Park Avenue Armory with hundreds of hours of incredible footage....
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PRAY AWAY Premieres on Netflix
PRAY AWAY premiered on Netflix in August, generating hundreds of reviews and press articles (such as the ones in Variety and The Guardian), and spearheading...
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Queer Cinema Project Receives $77,000 in Funding
Queer Cinema Project received more than $77,000 from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation and the estate of Barbara Hammer, allowing QCP to continue to support...
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Build or Destroy premieres in festivals and museums

Build or Destroy, an animated experimental short that Johnny produced, screened in festivals including Outfest, Outfest Fusion, Choreoscope (Barcelona), Seattle Queer Film Festival and Newfest, where director Rashaad Newsome won the Emerging Black LGBTQ+ Filmmaker Award. The film also screened at the In the Black Fantastic exhibition in London and …

Get Your 10s wraps primary production at Assembly exhibition

After 6 intense weeks, we emerged from Rashaad Newsome’s mind-blowing exhibition and performance at NYC’s Park Avenue Armory with hundreds of hours of incredible footage. Featuring some of the top vogue dancers from around the world along with an opera singer, a spoken-word poet, global musicians, a gospel choir and …

Black Magic

BLACK MAGIC, a new performance video celebrating Black queer resiliency and strength by Rashaad Newsome, premiered in January at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in NYC, followed by a screening at Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany. Johnny Symons was producer and DP.