Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson

Emmy, Guggenheim, and Sundance award-winning duo Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson co-founded Rada Studio to balance their family life with their passion for the arts. Together, they have built an impressive portfolio of fiction films, documentaries, immersive XR installations, and books. Through a Black Atlantic lens, they reimagine narratives of resistance and healing, weaving fiction, immersive, experimental, and hybrid forms that center a Black Radical tradition and the lived experiences of the Black diaspora exemplified by their genre bending works: Changing Same XR, Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games, The Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, and more recently True North (produced by Studio 112), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.