Project: Her Pretty Vagina (HPV) - Plagued by the emotional and physical tolls off endometriosis, Kaleigh’s world only gets tougher as HPV makes an unwelcome entry into her life.

Kiah Alexandria Clingman (she/her) is a filmmaker and TV enthusiast bi-coastal to Atlanta, Ga and Los Angeles, Ca. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kiah graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor of Arts where she studied Advertising and double minored in Theater and History. She is passionate about creating stories that amplify the voices of underrepresented communities, rather than just speaking to them. She loves collaborative environments and a chance to engage her unique life experiences in the work she does. Her consulting experience stems from 5 years at Deloitte, where she gleaned core consulting skills including managing ambiguity, interpersonal & inclusive communication, change/project management, and quantitative/qualitative analysis.

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BEHIND THE CURTAIN is a dramedy that at its core is an homage to the work, both medically and emotionally, that medical assistants provide to patients specifically within abortion clinics.

I was raised in a house of women: tough, harsh, loving. Growing up in a trailer moving across the west coast certainly isn’t easy. My sisters and I learned to live without excess, to utilize every opportunity we found, and the importance of making do. We weren’t raised to dream but to succeed. It should be no surprise that my stories tend to center pragmatic women. My favorite characters defy genre: from HBOs Watchmen’s Sister Night, Elora from Reservation Dogs, Marg of Fargo, Nora of Past Lives, or Tarantino’s Jackie Brown. These are all grounded women made up of a dash of sardonic humor, quick to take action especially in a crisis and rarely maudlin. I’ve found these characters often lie on the fringes of cinema. Supporting roles. But as they finally take center stage, they shine. They may not know what it is to win but they know loss. They have a real need, everything to lose and something to say.

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Project: The Untitled Gentrification Project

Lorna, a struggling, single-mother, activist and poet, at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement falls victim to the boot of gentrification and is priced out of the neighborhood she has lived in for twenty years.

Poet, actor, and performing artist Staceyann Chin is the author of the new poetry collection Crossfire: A Litany For Survival, the critically acclaimed memoir The Other Side of Paradise, cowriter and original performer in the Tony Award–winning Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, and author of the one-woman shows Hands Afire, Unspeakable Things, Border/Clash, and MotherStruck. She has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and 60 Minutes, and her poetry been featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post. She proudly identifies as Caribbean, Black, Asian, lesbian, a woman, and a resident of New York City, as well as a Jamaican national.

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Project: Her Pretty Vagina (HPV)

Kiah Alexandria Clingman (she/her) is a filmmaker and TV enthusiast bi-coastal to Atlanta, Ga and Los Angeles, Ca. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kiah graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor of Arts where she studied Advertising and double minored in Theater and History. She is passionate about creating stories that amplify the voices of underrepresented communities, rather than just speaking to them. She loves collaborative environments and a chance to engage her unique life experiences in the work she does. Her consulting experience stems from 5 years at Deloitte, where she gleaned core consulting skills including managing ambiguity, interpersonal & inclusive communication, change/project management, and quantitative/qualitative analysis.

During her time in undergrad, she had the opportunity to study theatre in London, England and was selected to play Laura in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. Her love for acting took her to New York where she studied at the Maggie Flannigan Conservatory Studio. She has also studied with Sara Mornell, Matt Stanton from Dad’s Garage, and Catherine Dyer from Drama Inc.

She recently produced a short film, “Black Santa”, through Hillman Grad Productions that premiered at Tribeca Film Festival June 2022. “Black Butterflies”, another film she produced, premiered on BETHer, July 2022. She is widely known for producing and starring in the webseries, “Outlandish”, that has over half a million views on YouTube and was considered by Issa Rae Productions for Season 2 distribution/production. Kiah’s love for her father, James Clingman, who has ALS, empowered her to direct and co-write her first SAG award-winning short film in August 2019, “Eavesdropping on the Elders”, which received 17 Official Selections and won "Best Film" in the Seattle Black Film Festival and Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival. “Eavesdropping” was also handpicked for distribution on KweliTV, May 2022. Her latest series she produced and starred in, "Hard Drive" is now available to watch on Youtube.

She is a 2020 Southern Producers Lab fellow sponsored by Sundance Institute and the New Orleans Film Society. She was recently selected as a Top 10 Finalist for the Fall 2022 Film Impact Grant. She was also selected as a REVOLT Short and Fresh Winner, Fall 2022.

Kiah is well-known for her guest star role as “Hannah” in FOX’s “The Resident”, her recurring role in NBC’s “Ordinary Joe” and supporting roles in CW’s “Black Lightning”, CBS’s “S.W.A.T.”, and her comedic relief in Netflix’s “Undercover Brother 2”. She played the lead role, Chanel, in Black & Sexy TV’s series, “Doing It Wrong”, which premiered on Black & Sexy TV’s paid subscription service as a part of their HBCU initiative.

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Project: The Untitled Gentrification Project

Poet, actor, and performing artist Staceyann Chin is the author of the new poetry collection Crossfire: A Litany For Survival, the critically acclaimed memoir The Other Side of Paradise, cowriter and original performer in the Tony Award–winning Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, and author of the one-woman shows Hands Afire, Unspeakable Things, Border/Clash, and MotherStruck. She has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and 60 Minutes, and her poetry been featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post. She proudly identifies as Caribbean, Black, Asian, lesbian, a woman, and a resident of New York City, as well as a Jamaican national.

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