Zeinabu irene Davis is an independent filmmaker and Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. Her work is passionately concerned with the depiction of women of African descent. Her dramatic film entitled Compensation (1999) features two inter-related love stories offering a view of Black Deaf culture. New Yorker Magazine critic Richard Brody has named it as one of the best American independent films of the 20th century. Criterion and Janus Films will re-release the film in Fall 2024. She recently completed a dramatic short about a COVID-19 experience entitled Pandemic Bread, which has played at 8 festivals and earned nominations for Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress for Becca Godinez at the San Diego Film Awards 2024. She is working on a documentary, Stars of the Northern Sky, which tells the stories of abolitionists Sojourner Truth, Phyllis Wheatley, and Marie Joseph Angelique.

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Facilitating the conversations are award-winning filmmakers and SDFC co-founders Benito Bautista and Emma Francisco Bautista, and Alicia de Leon Torres, Deputy Director of the Nemeth Foundation and SDFC Board Member. Sound design and edit by SDFC Technical Director, Miko Aguilar. Key art design by SDFC Communications & Social Media Manager, Tiara Liz Deriquito.

Nemeth Narratives is presented by The Nemeth Foundation in partnership with San Diego Filipino Cinema and New Americans Museum

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