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JAZZ IN WAKANDA
An otherwise uneventful day for Julie takes a more serious turn when her daughter, Jazz, starts to ask profound questions about slavery, and what she's learned at school.
​Directed by Djaka Souar
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Starring: Djaka Souaré, Zainab Jah, Sydney Morton, Jazz Hardrict
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2019 Urban World Film Festival
​2019 Nitehawk Shorts Festival
2019 NY African Film Festival

2019 Harlem Film Festival
2019 Da Bounce Urban Film Festival
2019 Ridgefield Independent Film Festival
2019 Black Muslim Girl Fly Film Festival - 
Best Short Narrative Award 
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2020 New Filmmakers Los Angeles
2020 Elba Film Festival
​2020 Home is Distant Shores Film Festival

FOR LIFE
When a new friend shows up, two best-friends-forever are forced to question how long 'forever' really lasts.
Directed by Djaka Souaré
Starring: Vianessa Castanos, Xanthe Paige, Ayana Taylor 

2020 Vegas Movie Awards - Best Narrative Short
2020 International Independent Film Awards - Best Narrative Short
2020 Focus International Film Festival
WORDS
A New York Love story about two lovers whose language barriers ultimately creates a wall.
Directed by Amhalise Morgan  
​Starring: Djaka
Souaré & Nicholas Pinnock

2019 Garifuna Film Festival
2020 Official Selection New York Cinematography Award (NYCA)
NAIROBI
​Upon immigrating to New York, a West-African mother finds comfort in the dresses her daughter makes for her.
Directed by Phillip Youmans
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Produced by SOLANGE KNOWLES
Starring: Djaka
Souaré, Anta Fily Gaye, Jean-Francois Ogoubiyi

2020 Pyeongchang International Peace Film Festival

Z-BORN
When a futuristic cop finds out she's been selected to escape this dying earth and leave for a new and thriving planet, she must decide if she wants to leave and save herself ​or stay and save her world. 
Directed by Shaan Couture
Starring: Djaka
Souaré, Alex Sarrigeorgiou
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2018 Women Week end Film Challenge
​2019 St Francis College Women's Film Festival 
AN AFTERNOON IN MONTE CARLO
Marlon Rivers, a young African-American finance wunderkind specialized in the 'Monte Carlo' system, meets Margot Marshall, a mystery LA woman who has just landed in New York that fateful day.
Directed by Vaintino
Starring: Djaka
Souaré, Mario Brown
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​I WANT MY MTV 
A powerful and heady documentary fills in the backstory of how MTV changed the world by turning music video into the new pulse of youth culture.

Directed by Tyler Measom and Patrick Waldrop
Produced by T
yler Measom and Patrick Waldrop, Nick Quested, David Kennedy, Djaka
Souaré

2019 TriBeCa Film Festival
2019 American Film Festival - Audience Award
2019 Glasgow Film Festival
2019 Sidewalk Film Festival
2020 Americana Film Festival
HELL ON EARTH: THE FALL OF SYRIA AND THE RISE OF ISIS
​A look at the current state of Syria amidst war and chaos in 2017, featuring stories of survival and observations by political experts from around the world.

​Directed by Sebastian Junger & Nick Quested
Produced by Gretchen McGowan, Ahmed Barbary, Djaka
Souaré, Alex Jordanov
Writer: Mark Monroe

2017 TriBeCa Film Festival
2017 HotDocs
2017 National Board of Review - Top Five Documentaries
2017 San Diego International Film Festival
2018 Satellite Award - Nominated for Best Motion Picture


​THE TEMPEST 
Directed by Carl Cofield
 
​@Marcus Garvey Park
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ROMEO N JULIET
Directed by Justin Emeka ​
​@Marcus Garvey Park

'' Sword fights become break dancing battles ,Juliet's balcony is a fire escape, the apothecary is a drug dealer on the corner, and the young men killing one another in their families' names are engaged in class wars (..) This adaptation works''
THE NEW YORKER
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'Lakai Worrell's choreography is first rate. Providing a supernatural feel, lit up 'ancestors' dance in doorways. Under his direction, the ensemble keeps the poetry forefront''
HUFFINGTON POST

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THREE TRANSLATIONS OF UNCLE VANYA AT THE SAME TIME
Directed by Morgan Green​ - New Saloon @The Invisible Dog
Press: http://newyorktheatrereview.blogspot.com/2015/04/ryan-hudak-interviews-morgan-green-on.html
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