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, joined the faculty of Spelman College as its Diana King Endowed Professor in Film, Filmmaking, Television, and Related Media in the Department of Art and Visual Culture. Lynch also serves as the Director of the documentary film program at the historically Black college in Atlanta. Previously she served 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 was inducted as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Shola Lynch 