The Queen Collective has finally arrived. Queen Latifah has launched her passion project that’s a program developed in partnership with Procter & Gamble and Tribeca Studios, where they plan to promote gender and racial equality among filmmakers.
The team came together to decrease the major gap between multicultural female directors and their male counterparts.Queen Collective will do so through mentoring, production support and by offering equal distribution opportunities.
Recently, the inaugural short films If There Is Light directed by Haley Elizabeth Anderson and Ballet After Dark directed B. Monet, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
The film plot says that a, “14-year-old Janiyah Blackmon wrestles with her new life in New York City as her mom tries to move her family out of the shelter system and into a stable home,” in Anderson’s short.
B. Monet’s film project “tells the story a young woman who found the strength to survive after an attack. She created an organization that is helping sexual abuse and domestic violence survivors find healing after trauma through dance therapy.”
Both of the inaugural short films are now exclusively streaming on Hulu.
Queen Latifah isn’t just bringing new female talent to the scenes but she is also giving back to her hometown of Newark, New Jersey, by building affordable housing in the city. She invested $14 million into the housing project.
Featured Image:(Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)
