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The Black Girl Training Team
co-creator
Emily Kuester
(producer/director)
Emily is a producer and director
at 371 Productions and has assisted
in producing short and long-form documentaries, virtual reality
experiences, podcasts, mobile apps,
most recently, the “Ashe ‘68” VR experience, screened at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. She is the co-creator of the fiction series Black Girl Training, which won the first annual Keep It Colorful campaign with Seed and Spark and is now being Executive Produced by Mary Ann Marino. Emily was also a facilitator at the 2018 Mozilla Festival in London and was on a SXSW panel for a new WebVR experience, The Colored Girls Museum. She is a finalist in the POV Spark competition for a short doc about her adopted brother. Her
career started in 2014 with a full ride
to the University of Wisconsin -
Milwaukee’s Film Program where
she served as student
body president.
EMILY KUESTER
CO-CREATOR
CO-CREATOR
Santana Coleman has been a
content creator since 2013 and
graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville with a BA in Media Studies. She is the Co-Producer on 371 Productions feature-length documentary, ‘When Claude Got Shot,' an intimate viewing on how gun violence disrupts the lives of 3 black families in the city of Milwaukee. A member of the Milwaukee Filmmakers Alliance, she also serves on the board of their Diversity Committee hoping to support up and coming filmmakers of color. Since May 2018, she has been developing 'Black Girl Training', a comedy series exploring transracial adoption, identity, and what it
means to be black. Santana
currently resides
in Milwaukee WI.
SANTANA COLEMAN
Executive Producer
Mary Ann Marino’s early career was
launched on MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO and
EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES with Gus Van
Sant and Laurie Parker. Soon after, she became the
Senior V.P. of Production at Tim Burton Productions where
she was a producer on MARS ATTACKS, oversaw JAMES AND
THE GIANT PEACH and helped develop THE CORPSE BRIDE.
After the closing of TB Productions, Marino’s creative producing career flourished on short-form assignments with directors like Ang Lee, Alejandro Gonzalez Inñaritu, Mark Romanek, Emmanuel Lubezki and Lance Acord. In 2007, Acord brought her on to run Park Pictures West in Los Angeles where she led them from a boutique spot shop to a top industry contender. Marino’s work at Park earned an Emmy, multiple Cannes Film Lions, UK Shots awards and prestigious Camerimage awards. At Park, she produced the indie feature PERMANENT with writer/director Colette Burson which stars
Patricia Arquette and Rainn Wilson. Most recently, Marino
served as the Head of Physical Production at Amazon Studios Original Movies.At Amazon, she oversaw advanced
development and production for 44 original and
acquired feature films, including the Oscar-winning
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
and Oscar-nominated THE BIG SICK.
MARY ANN MARINO
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
371 Productions is a production
company working across platforms from TV and
film to radio and virtual reality. Its focus is on
projects that address vital social issues of our time.
371’s work has been recognized with awards ranging from national Emmy nominations and Duponts to Peabody awards. Its work is shown on PBS, cable television, film festivals including Sundance and Tribeca, and on journalism websites like the Washington Post and The New York Times. 371 proudly dedicates itself to supporting the voices and careers of women and storytellers of color as well as filmmaking from our home base of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 371’s team for this project is diverse in terms of
race, age, and gender.
371 Productions
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
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