Nekisa Cooper
Producer, Northstar Pictures Inc
After coaching college basketball and working in Brand Management for such companies as Colgate Palmolive and L’Oreal, Nekisa Cooper found the perfect intersection of her skill sets in Creative Producing. Based in New York, she produced the Sundance Channel documentary feature EVENTUAL SALVATION and the Focus Features-released narrative feature PARIAH. In addition she has produced several shorts for writer/director Dee Rees, including PARIAH, COLONIAL GODS and ORANGE BOW. Notably, she was the recipient of the 2013 Fox HBCU Alliance Media Grant in partnership with Film Independent and a producing fellow for the 2010 IFP Trans Atlantic Partners Program, the 2009 IFP Cinemart/Rotterdam Producing Lab, the 2009 Film Independent Project Involve Program and the 2008 Sundance Institute Creative Producing Lab. Nekisa is in post-production on the feature documentary THE UGLY DOLL and in development for Dee Rees’s third feature, BOLO. Nekisa holds a BA from William & Mary and an MBA from Clark Atlanta University.
Loading ...