Ebony Blanding

Ebony Blanding - Director known for her work in such projects: «A Mess of Memories» (2026),

Ebony Blanding is a writer / director whose work seeks to amplify black women, black people and humanity existing in fullness cinematically. Evaluating representation, tradition and subject matter to develop imaginative dialogues and character studies, Ebony uses film to radically depict worlds through the female experience and perspective.

Accepted into Atlanta Film Society’s 2017-2019 Filmmaker-In-Residence Program, WonderRoot’s Hughley 2017-2018 Fellowship Program and AIR Serenbe’s 2019 Artist Fellowship, Blanding received the 2019 Idea Capital Atlanta Grant for her narrative And so they rested, paying homage to Southern motifs and black performance art. In 2020, Blanding was awarded Dream Warriors Foundation 2020 Spark Grant for the Arts and a grant for her short form documentary, The Final Bow, from Southern Documentary Fund.

Colorfully crafting scenes meditative in intimacy, Blanding uses moving pictures and narratives as ascensions to glorify black renaissance and believes the complexities and possibilities of blackness portrayed on screen are an artistic act of activism.

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