Jamaica Kincaid Project Untitled

Director and Producer Stephanie Black

A cinematic literary biography, Jamaica Kincaid Project Untitled merges literary excerpts with Kincaid’s life story— from a childhood in colonial Antigua, to teen years as an au pair in New York, to becoming a staff writer for The New Yorker at age 26, a passionate gardener, a convert to Judaism, and one of the most compelling and preeminent Caribbean writers of our times.

Stephanie Black

Director, Producer

Stephanie Black is an award-winning documentary filmmaker of documentaries, including: H-2 Worker (1990) winner of Best Documentary/Best Cinematography at Sundance Film Festival; Semaine de la Critique, Cannes; and was acquired by Smithsonian NMAAHC in 2022; Life and Debt (2001), which went on to win multiple awards; and Africa Unite (2008). Black’s television credits include two decades of producing for CTW’s Sesame Street; Being Bobby Brown for Bravo (2006); The Houstons Remember Whitney for Lifetime TV (2012), and short documentary segments for MSNBC. Black taught documentary filmmaking in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the United Nations/Speak Africa program. In 2009-2011, she worked in Jamaica developing local documentary television programs and training young filmmakers. Black produced and directed “Crime, Punishment and a Brazilian Supermax”, a commissioned short on a “redemption through reading” program in a maximum security federal prison in Brazil (2019). Black directed and co-produced Fake News (2022) a web series for the Onassis Foundation Los Angeles. Black served as Second Unit Director for Raoul Peck’s Fatal Assistance (2013).