FOUNDERS

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Raquel Cepeda

Raquel Cepeda is a New York City born and bred author and filmmaker of Dominican descent. Cepeda’s most recent documentary, the award-winning La Madrina: The Savage Life of Lorine Padilla, is currently streaming on Showtime. Directed, written, and produced by Cepeda, the documentary follows a beloved South Bronx matriarch and former “First Lady” of the Savage Skulls gang as she struggles to remain visible in a rapidly gentrifying community she helped rebuild in the 1980s. Cepeda is currently adapting her coming-of-age book, Bird of Paradise (Atria/ Simon & Schuster), an American-Immigrant dramedy noir set primarily in both Washington Heights/ Inwood, and Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. Cepeda and her husband Sacha Jenkins are developing a slate of documentaries under their Resurgent Pictures shingle.

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Sacha Jenkins

Sacha Jenkins is a New York-based writer, filmmaker and musician who came of age during hip hop’s golden era. A journalist, Jenkins published Graphic Scenes & Xplicit Language—one of the earliest magazines dedicated to graffiti art––co-founded ego trip magazine, co-wrote ego trip's Book of Rap Lists, ego trip's Big Book of Racism, and produced Ego Trip television series. Between 1997 and 2000, Jenkins was the music editor of Vibe magazine. Jenkins, alongside David “Chino” Villorente, co-created the influential Piecebook series of books. A documentary filmmaker, Jenkins films include Fresh Dressed, Of Mics and Men—a four-part series about the infamous Wu Tang Clan, and Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James. His latest critically acclaimed documentary, Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues, is available on Apple TV+.

 
 

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