Michèle Stephenson
Directing · Director · Producer · Writer
Active 1995–present · Awards: Anonymous Was A Woman Award, Guggenheim Fellowship
Michèle Stephenson is an American documentary filmmaker, artist, and author who pulls from her Panamanian and Haitian roots, and experience as a human rights attorney to tell compelling, deeply personal stories that are created by, for,…
Filmography
Freddie Gray Documentary - ProducerTrue North: Canadian Myths and Black Power (2025) - DirectorThe Age of Water (2024) - ProducerGoing to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2023) - Producer · Writer · DirectorBlack Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games (2023) - Producer · DirectorElena (2021) - Director · WriterFor Our Girls (2021) - DirectorDecolonizing Mental Health (2021) - DirectorThe Changing Same - Episode 1: The Dilemma (2021) - Producer · DirectorStateless (2020) - Additional Camera · Production Sound Mixer · Storyboard Artist · Translator · Director · Writer · ProducerDrawn to the Mat (2019) - Director · ProducerThe Changing Same (2018) - Producer · Writer · DirectorA Mother's Dream (2016) - Director · ProducerA Conversation with White People on Race (2015) - Director · ProducerA Conversation with Black Women on Race (2015) - Director · ProducerA Conversation About Growing Up Black (2015) - ProducerA Conversation With Asian-Americans on Race (2015) - DirectorA Conversation With Latinos on Race (2015) - DirectorAmerican Promise (2013) - Director · ProducerComing Home: The Dry Storm (2010) - Director · ProducerSlaying Goliath (2008) - Director · Writer · ProducerFaces of Change (2006) - Director · ProducerThe Killing Zone (2003) - ProducerThe Keeper (1995) - Associate Producer