Brownies

Directed by Aisha Ford

Length: 11:00
Producers:  Preston Lee and Carole Murphy
Editor: Kameron Davis and Aisha Ford
Cinematographer: Kameron Davis
Sound Designer: Amelia Palmer

Set in 1983 at camp, Snot (12) and her all-black girl scout brownie troop seek revenge on an all white privileged troop for calling them a racial slur. However, things take a left turn which leads to a shocking truth.

Graduate Film 

asf458@nyu.edu

Aisha Ford is an award-winning filmmaker who strives to make films in hope of inspiring others like her to speak their truth. The art that she works on every day is her activism. It’s a space where she can dive into her own consciousness, and share her inner emotions and world perspective.

Over the past few years, she has written and directed short films that have broadcasted on platforms such as the American Black Film Festival Independent TV series and screened at multiple film festivals across the country. During her time at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, she was the recipient of the Dean’s Fellowship, the Spike Lee Film Production Grant and the prestigious NYU Wasserman Award for her 2nd year short film “Royal.” She was also the recipient of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts HBO Scholarship. In 2019, she was chosen as one of the fellow MFAs to attend the Sundance Film Festival, on behalf of the BET Blackhouse Foundation. She followed with her short film, “Cherry Lemonade,” premiering at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. In 2023, she was awarded the Haig Manoogian Production Award and the Roger King Finishing Award for her upcoming film “Brownies.”

Aisha recently imparted her own experience into the writing and directing process for “As Early As Five” for Dove, which centers around Black women’s hair and navigating the lifelong discrimination that comes with hair politics.