Yvonne Michelle Shirley

Yvonne Michelle Shirley is a director and producer of narrative and documentary films. She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts' Graduate Film Program, and is inspired by filmmaking in the social realist tradition. Her short film, Flowers, won Best Short Film in the HBO Short Film Competition at the 2016 American Black Film Festival. Her documentary short, Miasia: The Nature of Experience premiered at the 2017 BlackStar Film Festival. She produced the award winning documentary short, Black 14, directed by Darius Clark Monroe, which most recently screened at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Yvonne is producing and directing the web series, Frame by Frame, for the audio/visual magazine, Topic.com, and is producing a feature length documentary on the artist, Gil Scott-Heron, directed by celebrated documentarian, Orlando Bagwell (Eyes on the Prize, Malcolm X: Make It Plain). She resides in the city of her birth, Newark, NJ, where she is collaborating with local artists to develop The Newarkive, a multimedia artistic archive, centering imagery of and by Newark's African American communities.

• Saturday Morning Blues

  Director

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  Miasia: The Nature of Experience

  Director

• Watch Out for the Ghosts

  Director

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  African Booty Scratcher

  Sound Mixer

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  How Would You Feel?

  Editor

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  Flowers

  Director

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  The Black 14

  Producer

• 2026Watch Out for the GhostsDirector
• 2018The Black 14Producer
• 2017Miasia: The Nature of ExperienceDirector
• 2016FlowersDirector
• 2010How Would You Feel?Editor
• 2010Saturday Morning BluesDirector
• 2007African Booty ScratcherSound Mixer