Darcy McKinnon
About
Darcy McKinnon is a documentary filmmaker, ED of the New Orleans Video Access Center, and co-founder of All Y’all, the Southern Documentary Collective with Elaine McMillion Sheldon. In addition to A FINE GIRL, she is currently producing two feature docs: NEUTRAL GROUND (ITVS), with director CJ Hunt, about the removal of New Orleans’ confederate monuments; Nailah Jefferson’s COMMUTED, about Danielle Metz, a New Orleans woman whose triple life sentence was commuted after 23 years in prison.
A Fine Girl
A FINE GIRL follows Brandi Jarrow, a 27-year old trans woman of color from New Orleans, as she takes the personal and professional success she has achieved as a hairstylist, and works to open an inclusive luxury salon. The film is a joyful, optimistic portrait of what's possible when we include and uplift trans people as essential contributors to our community.
Commuted
After serving twenty-three years in prison separated from her two children, Danielle Metz returns home when her sentence is commuted by President Obama. COMMUTED follows her life as she rebuilds her relationships with family and fights a system that is incarcerating women at an unprecedented rate.