Nevline Nnaji

Raised in Massachusetts, Nevline Nnaji gravitated towards researching her heritage as a black woman, especially after she spent two years in a Nigerian boarding school to close out her high school years. She attended Boston University afterwards, where she honed her creative style as she majored in Film. Finding her ethnicity and gender underrepresented, Nnaji's first project was a feature-length documentary entitled "Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights" (2013). Her goal was to uncover the feminine side of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s through a combination of new interviews and archival footage. The documentary played in many festivals and eventually, Nnaji teamed up with several other black women filmmakers to create the New Negress Film Society in 2013. That artist collective is where Nnaji focused her efforts after her debut work, including work on her second film, "Genesis of Nine."