Studio Noize brings you a special episode featuring the 2020 Horizon Award winner Symone Baptiste. Symone made her directorial debut with the award-winning short film Sixteen Thousand Dollars after putting in years of work at NBC and booking comedy shows in LA. We talk about the process of making a movie, how she came up from working all her jobs, and what is going down in the comedy scene. We get to know this amazing filmmaker.
Symone Baptiste is a Director, Writer/Producer and Comedy Booker in Los Angeles.
Symone’s short directorial debut, Sixteen Thousand Dollars, won Programmers’ Best Narrative Short at the 2020 Pan African Film Festival (LA) & Best Comedy Short at the Queens (NY) World Film Festival. Additionally, her film is an official selection for the 2020 Atlanta Film Festival, RiverRun Film Festival, Seattle Black Film Festival, DC Shorts Festival, San Francisco Black Film Festival, Portland Comedy Festival + more! As a Writer/Producer, Symone conducts behind-the-scenes shoots and interviews for NBC.
See more: www.symonebaptiste.com + @symonejett
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