Shawn Peters

Camera operator

Biography

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Filmography

Random Acts of Flyness

Late-night series featuring a mix of vérité documentary, musical performances, surrealist melodrama and humorous animation as a stream-of-consciousness response to the contemporary American mediascape.

7.6

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost — until now.

6.5

Really Love

A rising black painter tries to break into a competitive art world while balancing an unexpected romance with an ambitious law student.

4.3

Adam

Adam, an awkward teen, spends a summer with his older sister, who is part of New York City's lesbian and trans activist scene. He meets the girl of his dreams but can't figure out how to tell her he's not the trans man she thinks he is.

6.0

Goldie

Goldie, a precocious teenager in a family shelter, wages war against the system to keep her sisters together while she pursues her dreams of being a dancer. This is a story about displaced youth, ambition, and maintaining your spirit in the face of insurmountable obstacles.

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Pharoahe Monch - Clap (One Day)

Short film about a police raid gone horribly wrong, featuring music by Pharoahe Monch.

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Earl Sweatshirt: Nowhere, Nobody

Nowhere, Nobody is a reflection of the life and perspective of Earl Sweatshirt. Through sheer symbiosis, they also reflect the life and perspective of co-writer and director Naima Ramos-Chapman, whose Afrosurrealist vision helped give his latest album, Some Rap Songs, new life.

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Piu Piu

A restless young woman yearns to escape the confines of romance in order to find her superpower.

7.0

Beyoncé - Their Fall Our All

This dreamlike fusion of political thriller and science-fiction fantasia is set to original music by Beyoncé.

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Still Free TC

Ty Dolla $ign is one of the world’s biggest musical artists, but as he begins work on his newest album, his brother Gabriel is serving a 67-year prison sentence for murder. Still Free TC follows the brothers over two years to explore how they ended up on such different paths, and watches as those paths converge again in a fight for clemency and self-discovery.

7.0

Diasporadical Trilogia

Diasporadical Trilogìa follows the story of a woman who mysteriously lived on three different continents at the same time. Through a magical realism lens, she shares her memories of growing up as a little girl in Brooklyn, a young lady in Accra and a middle aged woman in Bahia, while struggling with love, immigration and gentrification.

7.0

The Dig - You And I and You

This hypnotically surreal dance film is set to a single by the psychedelic rock band the Dig.

6.0

Native Sun

Mumin, a precocious young boy, makes the long trip to Accra from his home in Ghana’s rural northern region. He leaves having just experienced his mothers death, her last words to him a directive to travel to Accra and find the father he has never met. Along the journey he experiences Ghana as only a child can and in so doing expands our view of what the country is and what it will be.

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The Triptych

This documentary profiles contemporary artists Wangechi Mutu, Barron Claiborne, and Sanford Biggers. Each monologue is a reflection of their life experiences, letting the viewer discover how their observations have shaped the art they create.

7.3

Swimming in Your Skin Again

Drenched in the heat, spirit and landscape of South Florida, Swimming in Your Skin Again celebrates the spiritual feminine and coming of age. Guided by female inspirations we tour the ritual anchorages of life in and around Miami: the Catholic church, the swamp, the backyard, the water.

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Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself

The cosmic journey of sacred youth, during which pain, pleasure, and sublimation are nonnegotiable.

5.9

Univitellin

Marseille, today. Aminata works as a hairdresser in an Afro hairdressing salon, Badara works as mechanic. When they meet, their love story will change their lives.

4.5

Farewell Meu Amor

An immigrant's story about the love that is lost when a man's wife and son finally receive visas to join him in the USA.

5.0

Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky

This short is the unauthorized, heavily abridged, biographical, visual and supersonic moment about the fact that Johnny Allen Hendrix (aka Jimi Hendrix) knew how to skydive. Set in Seattle where Jimi was born and raised, the film wonders aloud about what this skill meant for the life he went on to lead. Why did he retreat to the sky so quickly before all of us were ready for him to go?

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Blitz the Ambassador - Something to Believe

Directed by Terence Nance, the film addresses the detachment we all battle, when faced with the the world's overwhelming issues. "It's hard to think about all the problems in the world without getting a little overwhelmed. So, a lot of times we just ignore things. I think Africa has suffered a lot because people choose to remain ignorant, rather than address the issues that are right in front of our faces," Blitz said.