Naimah Fuller
Naimah Fuller is an award-winning filmmaker, whose career has spanned over twenty years in motion picture production, television journalism, and independent filmmaking. Her credits include feature length films, documentary film, and independent film projects. Naimah is the recipient of numerous industry awards, including Best Producer, Best Writer. She received the prestigious Media Women’s Award for several documentaries she wrote and produced for WABC-TV, including her documentary film of Director Gordon Parks. Her independent film credits include Matriarch, which was presented at the IFP Market in New York City’s Angelica Theatre, as well as the National Public Radio Showcase of Film and Video by Black Women, in Washington, DC. Naimah was Writer, and Co-producer of the ACE Award Nominated documentary Choices, which was narrated by Laurence Fishburn.
In 2004, Fuller launched her own production company Earthlight Media Arts & Services, LLC. The Media Services Division of the Company provides A/V and Video Production services for an impressive roster of clients that include entertainers, small businesses, and non-profit organizations. The Company’s first major account was creating a DVD Series in New Orleans of the work of the Rev. CT Vivian and his involvement in Churches Supporting Churchs (CSC), an organization he formed to rebuild the churches that were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
The Media Arts Division of The Company is developing two original screenplays, with the intention of working with Will Smith's Overbrook Company. There is also a book project in the queue as the companion for the documentary film project of the same name: A Place Called Home. The groundbreaking documentary film project In Search Of A Place Called Home: The Great Migration Of The 21st Century, on which CEO Naimah Fuller is at the helm as producer, writer, director, and videographer, is of historical proportions, and includes appearances from Danny Glover, Andrew Young, Dr. Maya Angelou, and Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman. The project was selected in the Semi-finalist category in the National Black Programming Consortium 2006 Open Call, and was featured as a Work-In-Progress at the 2006-2007 Harlem Stage Film Festival in New York City.
Naimah’s film career has taken her around the country, and around the planet to South America, Central America, Europe, and Japan. At the top of her wish list is to do a film project in Africa.