‘Aftershock’ Co-Director Tonya Lewis Lee Indicators With Artists First

Tonya Lewis Lee, co-director and producer of the buzzy documentary “Aftershock,” has signed with Artists First.

Company co-president Brian Dobbins will symbolize her as a producer, director, author, entrepreneur and ladies’s well being advocate. A storyteller whose work has resonated with marginalized communities for over twenty years, Lee intends to broaden her advocacy and provide Black and Brown communities entry to platforms that can share missed and undervalued tales.

“Aftershock” premiered in July on Hulu via the label Onyx Collective, a unit dedicated to creators of shade which was arrange by Disney Common Leisure. It examined the maternal mortality disaster plaguing Black and Brown ladies in America, gained the 2022 Sundance Movie Pageant particular jury award for Influence for Change and is nominated for greatest documentary function and greatest political documentary at this yr’s Critics’ Selection Documentary Awards.

Lee’s movie and TV work spans from nonfiction to family-friendly options just like the Hallmark Channel launch “The Watsons Go to Birmingham,” and episodic sequence on Netflix together with “She’s Gotta Have It” and “Monster.”

Lee is the writer of three kids’s books, together with “Please, Child, Please,” “Please, Pet, Please,” and “Large Steps to Change the World.” She’s additionally authored the mainstream fiction work “Gotham Diaries.” This November marks the twentieth anniversary of the publication of “Please, Child, Please,” which has offered over 1 million copies worldwide and impressed a Season 4 episode of ABC’s “Black-ish.”

Moreover, she is the founding father of vitamin complement model Movita Organics, created in 2015 to foster higher well being outcomes for girls and supply them with a high-quality assets and wellness.

Artists First is a administration and manufacturing entity and boasts purchasers together with Jordan Peele, Awkwafina, Kenya Barris, Tracee Ellis Ross, Niecy Nash, Will Arnett, Kate McKinnon and Jon M. Chu.