Sidra Smith is on a mission to seek out the following Ryan Coogler or Ava DuVernay—a.k.a. the following Black storyteller. And thru the creation of the inaugural ESSENCE Film Festival, she’s set to just do that. “That is one other dope thing that ESSENCE is bringing to Black culture,” says Smith, executive producer, Essence Studios. “We’re excited to proceed to serve Black women deeply.”
The vision for Essence Studios, when it was launched in 2020, was to construct a streaming platform filled with original programming to support emerging artists on a worldwide scale. But just because the team set to work on creating this robust digital hub, COVID-19 hit.
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