Teaching Black History Through Film with Christopher Everett

Join Janice & Cherekana for an interview with Christopher Everett, President of Speller Street Films. Christopher Everett is a film director, producer, social media specialist, and graphic artist. He founded the creative studio, Speller Street Films in 2015, while directing and producing his first feature-length documentary, WILMINGTON ON FIRE. Everett combines his love for history and visual storytelling in this award-winning film to chronicle the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898. Christopher was recently selected for Firelight Media’s Documentary Lab 2021-2022 fellowship for his upcoming martial arts documentary, GRANDMASTER, and is currently wrapping up production on the sequel to WILMINGTON ON FIRE, WILMINGTON ON FIRE: CHAPTER II.  He is also working on a new docuseries with Preservation North Carolina We Built This:  Profiles of Black Architects & Builders in North Carolina. http://www.spellerstreet.com/