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
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.
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)?
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?