Cyrille Phipps is a media educator and filmmaker based in New York City. She has over thirty years of production experience, working on music videos, short films, and documentaries aired through several media platforms and produced by production entities such as PBS, TNT, the BBC and HBO. She was the co-founder of Black Planet Productions, which produced the award-winning grassroots series Not Channel Zero: The Revolution, Televised, recently featured with MoMA. In addition, she has worked for several non-profit media organizations such as Media Network, Downtown Community Television Center, Paper Tiger Television, and Manhattan Neighborhood Network. As the Senior Broadband Video Editor at TV Land Digital, she was responsible for all post-production for web-broadcast. C
urrently, she is an Associate Professor of Communication Arts at Marymount Manhattan College. She recently completed the award-winning short film, Mama Duke, a film she wrote, directed, and produced which premiered at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles. Previously, she wrote, shot and directed the short documentary, Seen, But Not Heard: AIDS, Sexual Politics and the Untold War Against Black Women.
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