Speakers
- Anthony Rivera
- Rivera
Anthony M. Rivera, an Award-Winning budding Afro-Puerto Rican filmmaker, activist and speaker from North Philadelphia. Rivera faced many hardships growing up that influences his craft today. He has centered his work around shape shifting the narrative of Black/Latinx folks in media representation. Providing young people who come from the harshest backgrounds knowledge around who they are, self importance, and the act of dreaming. With multiple short films under his belt already, he is studying film at New York University and is following in the footsteps of such alumni as Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, and M. Night Shyamalan.