NAIMA RAMOS-CHAPMAN

Oct. 4 2022

Hybrid Event

NAIMA RAMOS-CHAPMAN tells stories of transformation and understated bravery. Her stories stem from autobiographical events, incorporate magical realism, and seek to render psycho-spiritual realities we can not see —and juxtaposes that alongside the mundanities of everyday life. She’s into moral spastic laughter—they kind that moves you from tension into thinking a new way is possible.

She wrote, directed, acted and edited on the critically-acclaimed HBO series Random Acts of Flyness where she explored themes about sexual assault, machismo culture in the Afro-Carribbean, and the impact of intergenerational trauma on black women and their families.

Her first short film, And Nothing Happened, explored the psychological aftermath of sexualized violence and premiered at the 2016 Slamdance Film Festival. In 2017, the first draft of her screenplay Sad Songs In Languages I Don’t Understand was accepted for the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting Intensive. It is currently in development. A VR 360 film she wrote and directed, about how mass incarceration and gentrification impact black women in collaboration with Aljazeera Contrast premiered at Sundance in 2020.