L-R Director Deborah Riley Draper, Govt Producer Merline Saintil and Govt Producer Shannon Nash (photograph courtesy of Coffee Bluff Pictures)
Tribeca Festival Panelists L-R: Govt Producer Merline Saintil, Govt Producer Shannon Nash, Author/Director Deborah Riley Draper and Moderator Mikki Taylor
Coffee Bluff Pictures wins the prestigious Jury Award: Social Impression Tales at the 2023 Essence Film Festival for the documentary “OnBoard”
— Deborah Riley Draper
ATLANTA, GA, USA, July 6, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — Coffee Bluff Pictures gained the prestigious Jury Award: Social Impression Tales at the 2023 Essence Film Festival for the documentary “OnBoard.” The groundbreaking movie, written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Deborah Riley Draper, chronicles the rise of Black girls on America’s boards and the evolution of company board range from Patricia Roberts Harris in 1971 to Black Ladies on Boards (BWOB), a world group of fearless girls organized throughout the Summer time of 2020 to create change.
The 2023 Essence Film Festival occurred throughout the ESSENCE Festival of Tradition™ weekend, introduced by ESSENCE Studios™ and showcases storytellers from throughout the African diaspora. “OnBoard” provides a compelling glimpse into the motion began by Board veterans Merline Saintil and Robin Washington to increase the alternative and publicity of Black girls who can influence America’s company boardrooms. The movie, with its well timed and impactful narrative of entry and inclusion, together with the historic ringing of the opening bell at Nasdaq by members of BWOB, paradoxically screened 48 hours after the Supreme Courtroom overturned Affirmative Motion. Festival director Lamonia Brown and Hakeem Holmes, VP, ESSENCE Festival of Tradition, introduced the awards in a reside ceremony on Sunday, July 2, 2023. “OnBoard” is Coffee Bluff Pictures’ second official choice at the Essence Film Festival. In 2022, Coffee Bluff Pictures opened the pageant with a sold-out screening of “Twenty Pearls: The Story of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Integrated.”
“I like that I can direct a movie about a unprecedented motion began by Black girls in a movie produced by Black girls and screened at the epicenter of celebrating Black girls. This win is for the movie and all of the girls of coloration who paved the approach in Company America,” says Deborah Riley Draper. “OnBoard,” produced by Lacy Barnes, Shannon Nash, and Merline Saintil, loved a particular screening world premiere on June 13, 2023, at the Tribeca Festival in New York, with an encore screening on June 16, 2023. For extra details about “OnBoard” and its journey, please go to www.onboardthefilm.com.
About Coffee Bluff Pictures: Coffee Bluff Pictures is an Atlanta-based inventive firm based in 2010 by veteran promoting company govt Deborah Riley Draper to supply clever, significant movie, TV, and model content material that conjures up engagement with the audiences and the better group. The corporate’s work explores fascinating, under-represented characters and the wealthy, difficult journeys they embark upon in the U.S. and worldwide. Coffee Bluff Pictures is dedicated to increasing the aperture of the African American narrative on the display to extend common consciousness and understanding.
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OnBoard trailer
