Person
Contessa Gayles
Directing
Biography
Contessa is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist, and an Emmy-nominated producer. She tells stories about identity, socio-political movement, healing, liberation, and radical imagination, with a focus on race and gender.
Known for
Songs from the Hole
Producer
For Our Children
Director of Photography
Surge
Cinematography
The Feminist on Cellblock Y
Director
Founder Girls
Director
The Debutantes
Director
Filmography
- 2024The DebutantesDirector
- 2024Songs from the HoleProducer
- 2023Founder GirlsDirector
- 2022For Our ChildrenDirector of Photography
- 2020SurgeCinematography
- 2018The Feminist on Cellblock YDirector
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