White
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2017
Logline
In a burning hot near-future, climate change has both devastated the planet and turned melanin into the world's most valuable commodity. When Nuyorican beauty LUNA has her newborn ripped from her arms just moments after giving birth, she is thrust into the merciless world of melanin harvesting to save her daughter, her community and spark a revolution.
A. Sayeeda Moreno
SCREENWRITER, DIRECTOR
A. Sayeeda Moreno is a proud native New Yorker. Her Futurestates.tv short, White, premiered at SXSW and screened at Tribeca and BAMcinemaFest. The feature-length script (co-written with Micah Schaffer) won the San Francisco Film Society Hearst Award. Her short, Sin Salida, aired on HBO. She earned her MFA in Film from NYU.
MONIQUE CURNEN
PRODUCER
Monique Gabriela Curnen is an actor and producer. As an actor, Curnen appears in a string of critical successes: and Contagion. Curnen produced several short films, including Absent and. She is a Film Independent Fast Track Fellow for the feature I’m Not Down.
Chanelle Elaine
PRODUCER
Chanelle Elaine is a social impact producer, working in community with filmmakers, activists and philanthropists, advancing the global initiative of equality for girls and women everywhere. She produces media for (among others) the NoVo Foundation, the Women’s March on Washington’s national committee, and her first feature is a Netflix Original.
Kristie Lutz
PRODUCER
Kristie Lutz is an independent Creative Producer and Line Producer whose credits include thriller Nor’easter, Netflix Original First Match, multiple audience-award winner Hank & Asha, Phase4 distributed American Milkshake, as well as two features by James Franco: Black Dog Red Dog and an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God.