Creatively Speaking (TM) On The Air

Hosted By:

Michelle Materre, The Grande Dame of Black Whole

Co-Host Sabrina Schmidt Gordon is currently the co-director of The Black Documentary Collective, an organization founded by renowned documentary filmmaker, St. Clair Bourne. Sabrina is a film editor and producer who made her editing debut with an Emmy-winning episode of WGBH’s Greater Boston Arts series. She is the co-producer and editor of HIP-HOP: BEYOND BEATS AND RHYMES, a documentary about manhood and gender politics in mainstream HipHop that premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast nationally on PBS' Independent Lens. 

Jessica Green is the Cinema Director of Maysles’ Cinema, host of the upcoming series on Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck. She is also associate producing an adaptation of Henry James' The Beast In the Jungle and producing a documentary on Graffiti titled Anything You Can Get Away With. She got her new media sea legs as the executive editor of BET.com from 2000 independent hip hop magazine Stress (1994-2001). 

Jake Perlin is currently the Programmer at Large for The Film Society of Lincoln Center, host of the upcoming series “Tell It Like it Is: Black Independents in NYC 1968-1986” opening on February 6th. He is the Executive Director of Artists Public Domain, a nonprofit film production and consultation organization that includes Cinema Conservancy, which preserves and releases works of American independent cinema. From 2003 to 2011, he was the Associate Film Curator at BAMcinématek and in 2013, he co-programmed the New Yawk New Wave series with Bruce Goldstein at Film Forum.