Clark Burnett
Clark Burnett is a film director from New Jersey in both documentary and narrative film. He got his start by making use of his mother’s point-and-shoot camera and learning the craft online in the early days of YouTube. Clark graduated from Yale College in 2019 with a degree in sociology.
A 2018 Princess Grace Foundation Honorarium recipient, his work has been recognized by such places as The Yale Policy Lab and the New Haven Documentary Film Festival. His latest short, Athol Park, premiered at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth and took home an audience award. Not long after graduation, Clark started working full time as an associate digital producer for UNUM at Florentine Films, Ken Burns’s production company. Earlier this year, he joined Ken Burns and Sarah Burns on a panel at Yale moderated by Thomas Allen Harris.
J. Joseph
J. Joseph is a filmmaker and digital media artist from New Haven, Connecticut. He started making films as a teenager, documenting his friends skateboarding adventures, and competing in national short film competitions. J. went on to study film & media at Yale University, graduating in 2019. His work examines the implications of being Black in America. Since graduating J. has been mobilizing his passion for the arts and skateboarding to build community in his hometown. Working with the Yale Schwarzman Center, a center for the arts, J. led a project that culminated in the construction of a new public skatepark in New Haven’s Scantlebury Park.
J. is still hard at work writing narrative films, experimenting with skateboarding documentaries, and producing a little music in his spare time.
AMANI HILL
Amani serves as the publicist for Now, In Color. An English and Film & Media Studies double-major at Yale University, but a proud native of Cleveland, OH, she initially got into film by recording music videos for her older brother at the age of 12. As one of the cofounders of Twenty Lux Films, Amani has worked on multiple films with the student-run production company. With a self-proclaimed passion for the art of storytelling, Amani hopes to pursue a career in film after graduation and hopefully get back to her roots at the intersection of film and music.
Karnessia Georgetown
Karnessia serves as the producer for Now, in Color. She is in charge of recruitment, operations, and marketing. A proud native of Jackson, Mississippi, Karnessia is a junior at Yale majoring in sociology, interested in the intersection of economics and education policy. Karnessia joined the Now, In Color team because she remembered growing up and never knowing that black students attended universities like Yale. Karnessia wishes she had something like Now, in Color as a little girl. On a larger scale, Karnessia hopes that Now, in Color will affirm the beauty of blackness and all the diversity within it.