Speakers
- Katina Parker
- Independent Artist Filmmaker | Activist
Katina Parker is a filmmaker, photographer, journalist, and writer living in Durham, North Carolina. Parker is a 2016–17 recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship and a former instructor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She has twice received the Durham Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant and in 2015 was acknowledged by PBS as a leading civil rights photographer.
Parker’s current projects include A Love Supreme: Black, Queer and Christian in The South ; The Official Black Lives Matter Doc (working title); Truth. Be. Told., a doc series about Queer Black Visionaries; #DefendDurham, a doc about North Carolina’s pushback against White supremacist organizing; and The Baba Chuck Tribute . Parker is also curating We Have a Duty to Fight for our Freedom , a traveling exhibition about the Black Lives Matter movement. Parker received her MFA in Film Production from the University of Southern California and her MA in Speech Communications from Wake Forest University.