Current Film Project:

“MAMITA”: A Covid Memorial Documentary

(Feature Length, Currently in Post-Production)


Short films by Cathleen Campbell:

Cecelia Antoinette in OUTTA MY NAME

Cecelia Antoinette in OUTTA MY NAME

OUTTA MY NAME-- a sly, subversive comedy-- sends up something we take for granted. Every job interview begins with a simple question-- Name? What could go wrong? Lots. And yet...a woman who's ridiculed for her unusual name unexpectedly discovers the power of connecting. It's a sweet revenge tale for outsiders. Plus, you'll never think about apostrophes the same way again.

OUTTA MY NAME (4 mins.) stars Cecelia Antoinette, Elena McGhee and Willie C. Carpenter

Written & Directed by Cathleen Campbell

“OUTTA MY NAME,” was televised nationwide in the African American Short Films series. It also recently streamed in the 2020 Black Women in Comedy Film Festival, and screened at the Manhattan Film Festival, the National Black Writer’s Conference, the African-American Women in Cinema Film Festival and the Reel Sisters Film Festival.

Link: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/outtamyname

 
Cecelia Antoinette and Khadim Diop in “Langston Hughes’ NO CRYSTAL STAIR”

Cecelia Antoinette and Khadim Diop in “Langston Hughes’ NO CRYSTAL STAIR”

Based on the Harlem Renaissance’s great Langston Hughes' poem with the famous line-- "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."  The film is set in the present.  It starts with an angry teenager storming off, refusing to listen to his mother.  As she searches all around Harlem to find him, it becomes clear how much she loves him.  The only dialogue is taken straight from the poem.

Starring Cecelia Antoinette and Khadim Diop.

Written & Directed by Cathleen Campbell

Announcement about Streaming Channel Debut Coming Soon

Recent Screenings include:

Black Harvest Film Festival

New York Women in Film &TV’s Virtual Members Screening Series

Uptown People’s Assembly

Link: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/nocrystalstair



 
Based on Selina Hernandez’s angry, funny and heartfelt poem about the East Harlem neighborhood she loves—and fears she’s losing. As she walks around El Barrio, is she just imagining it—Buggin’?—or is her neighborhood disappearing (before her eyes)?S…

Based on Selina Hernandez’s angry, funny and heartfelt poem about the East Harlem neighborhood she loves—and fears she’s losing. As she walks around El Barrio, is she just imagining it—Buggin’?—or is her neighborhood disappearing (before her eyes)?

Starring Selina Hernandez

Adapted & Directed by Cathleen Campbell

Streamed in the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival to come…

Mientras la poeta Selina Hernández camina por El Barrio, ¿se lo está imaginando, volviéndose loca, o está desapareciendo su vecindario ante sus ojos?

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