Today Vital Voices, in collaboration with Grammy, Emmy, and Golden Globe-winning artist Queen Latifah, proudly announces efforts to bring more female filmmakers to the forefront of its storytelling efforts through a collaboration with Queen Collective. Developed in partnership with Procter & Gamble, Queen Latifah and Flavor Unit Entertainment, the Queen Collective helps create more opportunities behind the camera for diverse creators in the storytelling industry.
Vital Voices’ new female filmmakers initiative, DirectHers Cut, is the organization’s latest move to scale women’s empowerment globally by harnessing the talents of women producers and directors to lead in the storytelling narrative of the women leaders whom the nonprofit will honor during its flagship fundraising event, the 22nd Annual Global Leadership Awards. Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Vital Voices co-founder, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address.
Loretha Jones (The Equalizer, CBS) has been tapped as executive producer of the Global Leadership Awards honoree films. Under Jones’ guidance, three Queen Collective directors have been working with Vital Voices to direct four captivating short films, each dedicated to celebrating the extraordinary accomplishments of the women leaders being honored this year. The Queen Collective directors are: Luchina Fisher of Connecticut, Arielle Knight of New York, and Jenn Shaw of New Jersey.
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