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ABOUT ONE SCRIBE MEDIA'S FOUNDER, LANDE YOOSUF
Lande Yoosuf is a Nigerian-American novelist, Huffington Post blogger, screenwriter, filmmaker and cofounder of the non-profit organization Black Film Space. She is a writer, director and producer with over 12 years of production development and casting experience, and has worked with several networks, including MTV, NBC, WEtv
, truTV and Bravo and others. Her short film, Privilege Unhinged, screened at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, Big Apple Film Festival, the DC Black Film Festival, aired on Shorts TV and is currently streaming on Chicago’s VonTV (Available on Amazon Fire TV, Roku TV, Apple TV). Yoosuf’s second film, Second Generation Wedding screened at the Bronze Lens Film Festival, and inspired a prequel novel, “Ko-Foe.” She has an affinity for telling stories that explore media influence, sociology, gender/race relations, pop culture and self image themes and is currently developing a mixed slate of feature films, documentaries and television pilots through her production company, One Scribe Media. Yoosuf directed Antu Yacob’s dramatic short film Love in Submission, which screened at the Afrikana Film Festival, Noire Film Festival, New York African Film Festival, 1261 Film Festival, amongst others. The project was accepted into the “Emerging Black Filmmaker Collection,” and screened in over 40 theaters throughout the country and was a part of a diversity case study discussion in Hollywood at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. As Co-founder and Partnerships Director of Black Film Space, Lande works to contribute to expanded control, ownership and media management for content creators of African descent across all cinematic formats and content platforms. She has served as a host, workshop facilitator, speaker and moderator for events with organizations like ARRAY, HBO, ABFF, Filmshop, BAM’s New Voices in Black Cinema, The Root, legendary
Chicago radio station WVON 1690 and others and is currently the Associate Director at The New School's Graduate Writing Program. Previously, Yoosuf worked in reality tv casting, development and production. Lande earned a Bachelors of Arts from Brooklyn College in Television and Radio and honed her writing skills through classes taught by Jackson Taylor. In her spare time, she loves to sing, read, travel and spend time with her loved ones. She reps her Nigerian background proudly and holds down her hometown, the world-famous republic of Brooklyn, New York. View Lande's director's reel here - https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/412546414
