Denae Peters is:
A documentary impact consultant and media impact grantmaker.
A Master’s student at the University of London, studying global media and digital cultures in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, with a focus on the dynamics between media and social/political change.
A documentary film curator who has worked with programming teams at TIFF, Hot Docs, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, DOC NYC and Montclair Film Festival.
A founding board member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia (BGDM), a collective of 4,000+ women/non-binary people of color working in all areas of the documentary industry.
Canadian + obsessed with pie and chihuahuas.
Experience
Documentary Impact Infrastructure Program (NYC)
Perspective Fund
2020 to present
Programming (Toronto)
Hot Docs Film Festival
2020 to 2022
Impact Distribution (NYC)
Picture Motion
2019 to 2020
Programming, TIFF DOCS (Toronto)
Toronto International Film Festival
2019
Board President (Global)
Brown Girls Doc Mafia (BGDM)
2018 to present
Board Member (USA)
Represent Justice
2023 to present
Campaign Director (NYC)
Film Sprout
2016 to 2019
Film Office Manager (Toronto)
Toronto International Film Festival
2011 to 2015
Education
Bachelor of Commerce (2008)
University of Guelph
Master's, Global Media (2023 - present)
University of London (SOAS)
Impact Campaigns
The Cave (2019)
True Justice (2019)
Artifishal (2019)
Roll Red Roll (2019)
Rigged (2019)
For Ahkeem (2018)
Knife Skills (2018)
The Devil We Know (2018)
Care (2017)
Big Sonia (2017)
Whose Streets? (2017)
Almost Sunrise (2017)
From This Day Forward (2016)
Kombit: The Cooperative (2015)
Containment (2015)
Contact
Please note that I don’t currently have the bandwidth to support individual campaigns but if I can make a recommendation, I will!
- Denae
