The Future is Bright

Courtney Faye Powell is a NYC-based producer, director, and editor. Her short film, The Surf Report, was an official selection of New Orleans Film Festival, Baltimore International Black Film Festival, Boston, Seattle, and Montreal’s LGBT Film Festivals, East End London, Outside Diffusion Paris, and Queer Kampala, Uganda's historic first LGBT film festival. It was acquired by Dekkoo and will be available this spring. She recently directed another short, currently in festival submissions, that follows a newscaster in 1979 North Carolina as she covers a deadly clash between Communist union organizers and the Ku Klux Klan. Courtney is currently working on two feature projects – a drama that expands this short and a comedy (really) about abortion access. She graduated from Harvard University and is a Creative Director for Viacom’s Global Entertainment Group. She leads a team through all phases of production, creating content for Comedy Central, MTV, and Paramount. She formerly worked as a producer and director at Logo, where she helmed spots for Absolut, Levi's, Expedia, Miller Lite, & Orbitz that garnered GLAAD, Mark, and Creativity International awards and nominations. She was nominated for an Emmy in 2013 for producing a digital project for The Daily Show.