Gregory T. Walker

Founder, Global Creative Executive Director

Twitter: @TheBroNet | Instagram: @thebrothersnetwork

Philadelphia, PA

Cosmo Whyte, MFA

Contemporary Artist, Assistant Professor, UCLA

Instagram: @cosmowhyte

Los Angelos, CA

Dwight White, MA Communications

Contemporary Artist

Chicago, IL

Monique Y. Wells, VMD, MS

CEO, Wells International Foundation

Paris, France

Bayete Ross Smith, MFA

Contemporary Multimedia Artist, Adjunct Instructor of Photography, NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Harlem, New York City, NY

DWYS Benin

MIGRATION & TRANSLATION
'Au-delà des apparences’

Bayeté Ross Smith Hip Hop 50 Boombox

Marlon Johnson

Emmy Award-Winning Film Director and Producer

Marlon Johnson is a twelve-time Emmy award-winning producer and director. A native of Miami, Marlon earned bachelor’s degrees in both Anthropology and Communications with a special focus on Motion Pictures from the University of Miami. He has produced award-winning documentary films exploring music, social and cultural issues. In 2005 he was commissioned by the Florida Film Consortium to produce and direct Coconut Grove: A Sense of Place which examined race-based gentrification in the West Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, the historic home of the first Bahamian immigrants. In 2006, The Ford Foundation commissioned Marlon to direct the short documentary Breaking the Silence which chronicled the rise of HIV infection in the Black-American South.

Later that year, Marlon served as Head of Production and Senior Producer/ Editor for Plum TV, a multi-platform lifestyle network. It was while producing at Plum TV he would receive eight regional Emmy nominations and won his first Emmy for his work on Local Arts and Entertainment Programming. In 2010, he began producing for the John and James L. Knight Foundation where co-directed the award-winning short Sunday’s Best, a film about the rich history of African-American women’s head adornments in church.

In 2014, Marlon co-produced and directed a feature-length documentary entitled, Deep City: The Birth of the Miami Sound, which chronicles the 1960’s Soul Music scene in Miami. The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest, was considered one of the top picks that year and won a regional Emmy award. The film is currently airing on PBS stations around the nation. In 2016, Marlon received the top prize from the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual Media Artist. This award is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and recognizes professional artists who are creating at the highest level of their craft. Marlon completed his second feature length documentary, Symphony in D, which takes the viewer on a symphonic journey across the city of Detroit as seen through the eyes of a Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer. It went on be awarded Best Documentary at the Regional Michigan Emmy Awards.

In 2020, Marlon showcased two feature documentary films to audiences worldwide. The first feature documentary, Singular, was a concert documentary and love letter to the artistry of the multi Grammy award-winning Jazz vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant, considered by most to be the greatest living Jazz vocalist. The second film was River City Drumbeat, produced by Owsley Brown Presents, is a contemplative portrait of the leader of a Pan-African drumline in Louisville who has dedicated his life to mentoring and saving the lives of youth in his neighborhood through arts and culture for the last three decades. It has gained critical acclaim, was recently acquired by Amazon Prime and was The New York Times Critic’s Pick.

More recently, Marlon was commissioned to direct a series short for Independent Lens/ITVS. The film entitled, Weight of the State, was part of an investigative series about the state of Kentucky’s controversial felony laws. The film will be showing on the digital platform of Independent Lens.

Instagram: @mjohnsonmia

Miami, FL