Story
In 2014, I began interviewing Nina, dequi and Chanel, to document their creative movement work taking place in New York. Each has their own journey, yet much of their individual work is what moves the collective forward. hearing their stories of purpose, family, triumphs, struggles & legacy draws great inspiration. Understanding the significance of their impact, I have been creating "multi-vocal" art works that explore and celebrate their lives. To Move Mountains is A Testimony, A Way to Give Thanks and a way of honoring their work so that others might know And Recognize the importance of it too. We Are creating a visual "collage"in conversation with time, and its links to the current political climate, the past and the future. We are inviting folks to share their stories to uplift the importance of honoring women of color movement builders with visibility.
-Lehna Huie, Director
Filming Brooklyn Dreamwolf for the to move mountains film - 2019
To Move Mountains
is a Testimony, a Way to Give Thanks & Recognition to Our Pioneers
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
—Zora Neale Hurston
LEHNA HUIE - Director
Lehna Huie (b.1988 NYC) is a multi-disciplinary artist, arts educator, curator, cultural worker & mother exercising a belief in the power of multi-vocal art. She is an artist amplifying stories of love, loss, and remembrance. Huie is deeply committed to the fusion of arts and social change as a path to liberation: exploring the past, present and the future of struggle and freedom. Central to Huie's creative work is her utilization of artistic expression as a compass for healing our world. Her work embodies cultural critique, celebration, and transformation.
Huie’s studio practice makes use of various materials on canvas, paper, and wooden surfaces. Her portraits and figurative work are highly textured. Often layered with diverse materials: paint, plaster, sawdust, beads as well as found objects, her work brings forth a symphony of moods. Grounded by the global community, New York City life, and the essence of her familial homeland in Jamaica, Huie is ever inspired by the African Diaspora.
BASHI ROSE - Cinematographer / Assistant Producer / Sound Designer
Bashi Rose, founder of Konjur Collective is a theater artist, musician, and filmmaker. He was raised in West Baltimore and was nurtured, inspired, and trained in his craft by the Baltimore Arts Community. He has performed and has had work produced in numerous venues including the High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music, Baltimore Rhythm Festival, San Francisco Black Film Festival, Black Femme Supremacy Film Fest, Black Panther Party Film festival, HipHop Theatre Festival, Creative Alliance, Arena Players, The Ottobar, Mind on Fire, Rhizome DC, New York International Fringe Festival, and the Schomburg Center. However, his work is often community-based. In 2007 he began facilitating a prison theater program, Direct Responses Alleviate Misdirected Aggression (D.R.A.M.A.) at the Maryland Correctional Training Center in Hagerstown, MD. In 2012 he was awarded an Open Society Institute fellowship to expand D.R.A.M.A. In early 2018 Bashi co-founded Konjur Collective, a multidisciplinary group using music, video, and spoken word to create radical, experimental, and spiritual Black art.
4TAE - Cinematographer / Photographer
Known for his smooth, sexy sounds, 4TAE is a Baltimore-based musician specializing in the trombone, vocals, and songwriting. He is also a filmmaker.
4TAE’s passion for music began with the drums in his high school marching band. During his senior year, he fell in love with the trombone and entered Morgan State University with a scholarship in music. His professional career began in 2005 playing with the renowned Eubie Blake Legacy Jazz Band and internationally-known soul band, Marcell and the Truth.
He’s played alongside various, notable artists, such as jazz violinist Regina Carter and Raheem Devaughn. He has opened up for many prominent artists, such as Anthony David, Anthony Hamilton, Algebra Blessett, and Lupe Fiasco.
Currently, 4TAE plays trombone with nationally acclaimed bands, such as Jah Works, Black Root Underground, The Cleanse, and Marcell and the Truth.
Along with the trombone, 4TAE excels at piano, bass guitar, and production work. He is currently working on his debut EP, “Blue Hart.” His music is described as a smooth explosion of hip-hop and R&B.
LAMISSE BEYDOUN - Associate Producer/Cinemtographer
Lamisse Beydoun is a first generation Lebanese- American, born and raised in Los Angeles, California. In 2015, she moved to New York City to Study Journalism, Design and Playwriting at The New School. Three years later, She graduated and produced her first independent documentary, Adira, exploring the nuances and intersections of queerness and Arab identity.
Since then, she has worked on many independent projects as well as studio projects including, 50 Years of Sunny Days for TIME Studios and an upcoming-feature length documentary about the iconic girl group, TLC for One Story Up Productions.
“I am a storyteller. Wether it's through documentaries, think pieces, oral histories, I work diligently to spotlight the stories of our times. In college, I interviewed artists, local business owners, musicians, community leaders for a number of video pieces. In 2019, I produced my short documentary Adira, a thesis film that profiles Queer Arab youth in NYC. I decided to expand the project outside of the US and telling the stories of Queer youth in Lebanon. My intentions are not subtle. I hope to put the marginalized stories on big screens.”