Shola Ayn Lynch
Shola Lynch is an award-winning American filmmaker best known for the feature documentary FREE ANGELA & All Political Prisoners and the Peabody Award winning documentary CHISHOLM ’72: Unbought & Unbossed. Her independent film body of work and her other collaborative projects feed her passion to bring history alive with captivating stories of people, places and events. In 2024, Shola joined the faculty of Spelman College as the Diana King Endowed Professor in Film, Filmmaking, Television, & Related Media and the director of the documentary film program in the Department of Art and Visual Culture. Prior to this she spent over a decade as the Curator of the Moving Image & Recorded Sound division of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In 2016, Shola became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Women in Hollywood
A feature documentary celebrating the history of Black leading women from past to present and the significance of the stature of being number one on the call sheet.
Rev. Jesse Jackson Documentary (Untitled)
A feature documentary on the life, work and historic contributions of the civil rights legend Reverend Jesse Jackson
Free Angela & All Political Prisoners
A feature documentary on legendary activist Angela Davis’ alleged crime and flight from the FBI in 1970 and the trial that transfixed the nation.
NAACP Image Award Winner
Chisholm ’72: Unsought & Unbossed
A feature documentary on Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm’s historic bid for the 1972 presidential nomination.
Peabody Award Winner
Unbought & Unbossed
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