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Why I’m A Filmmaker | NFFTY 2021 Filmmaker Summit

10.19.21 | NFFTY alumni will discuss their own journey of discovering what kind of artist they are -- and how they honed (and are still honing) their vision for their work. How do they view themselves: storytellers, content creators, artists, or something else? Join us for a roundtable that includes filmmakers working in different modes including documentary, narrative, animation, and experimental.

Godspeed - Film of the Week | NFFTY Podcast

2.10.21 | Director Sade Abiodun discusses her short film, Godspeed, with NFFTY Senior Programmer, Robert Speewack. Godspeed screened in the Call Your Mother screening at NFFTY 2020.

The Top Short Films To Stream at NFFTY 2020 | Directors Notes

10.22.20 | This is the first time I’ve covered the National Film Festival for Talented Youth. They pride themselves in being “the world’s largest and most influential festival for emerging filmmakers”, and the films on offer reflect that. Each filmmaker selected has to be in the beginning stages of their career, and there’s an additional emphasis placed on work which is representational in terms of diversity. We’ve distilled their terrific programme down to ten of our favourites which we think highlight what makes this festival so special…

Black Neuro Art, Godspeed Q&A with Sade Abiodun | Black in Neuro

07.30.20 | We sit down with Sade Abiodun, a filmmaker and neuroscientist, to discuss her short film Godspeed, as well as her research interests in neurocinematics. Join us to dive deeper into this sensory exploration of Black womanhood, personhood, faith and community, and to learn how neuroscience and art can become one… 

Bodies (Interview) | POOR DAD (Sunday School Series)

07.12.20 | As we sat down with the self proclaimed third culture kid @sade_abiodun, I couldn’t help but use the opportunity to pick the brain of the one who studies minds on how meaning and biases might be formed. She didn’t disappoint. Sit down and get your notepads out, class is in session...

Meet Sade Abiodun, The Director of "Godspeed" | FREE THE WORK

07.02.20 | Sade Abiodun is the kind of person who you can talk to for hours as you jot down quotes of her wisdom on post-its throughout the conversation. Her musings on the whys of life, the interconnectedness between different schools of thinking, and the unspoken link between beings are a welcome reprieve from the mundane. Given the fact that she's a budding filmmaker and an incoming PhD student at Princeton, where she'll be studying Neuro-cinematics (the neuroscience of film)...well, that checks out…

Duke Alum Sade Abiodun Brings Her Short Film to Hayti Heritage Film Festival | Duke Chronicle

02.12.20 | Durham’s Hayti Heritage Film Festival is one of the nation’s longest-running Black film festivals. This year, the lineup includes the breakout work of Duke alumna Sade Abiodun, Trinity ‘18. Her short film “Godspeed” premiered at the San Diego Black Film Festival earlier this month and has been selected for film festivals across the country. But if you ask Abiodun if she considers herself a filmmaker, it might take her a moment to say yes…

MISC.

Meta-science, Plurality, and Neurocinematics | Default Mode (WZBC-Newton)

1.14.21 | default mode is a radio show hosted by maria khoudary wherein they play variants of psychedelic music and interview researchers in neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. The first installment ran biweekly throughout their senior year at Boston College, produced at and airing on WZBC-Newton, a non-profit, non-commercial college radio station. The second installment is also airing biweekly on WZBC, produced remotely from Durham, NC.

The Healing Power of Art & Creativity | Free The Work

5.18.21 | A clubhouse conversation w/ Tara Aquino, Jude Harris, Nava Mau, brendan logan, Amrit Singh, Marta Pozzan, Bria Vinaite, Sade Abiodun, Vishnu Vallabhaneni — In observance of Mental Health Awareness Month, join this eclectic group of creators for an open community discussion on how art & creativity has played a crucial & healing role in our lives.

STEMSet Boulevard (Media Representations of Scientists) | SciComm Collective

11.23.20 | We investigate ways to combat the mis- and under-representation of diverse scientists that lead to marginalisation, poor recruitment, and lack of retention in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.

Guest speaker Sade Abiodun speaks to ways in which visual representation in film shapes our experience in STEM.

NOW Later: there is no place that cannot be home* | NOW Gallery

NOW Gallery’s ongoing celebration of the heterogeneous Black experience continues this October with there is no place that cannot be home. The curatorial collective i.as.in.we have been commissioned to explore facets of contemporary African diasporic identity through performance. The event coincides with Black History Month this October and NOW recognises the exigency of creating spaces for free expression and interrogative practice. 

Sade Abiodun, Artist in Conversation | Radical Black Art & Performance (UConn Contemporary Art Gallery)

2.18.21 | Sade Abiodun in conversation with Arien Wilkerson discuss the intersection between science, art, and identity. Particularly, this conversation will draw focus on blackness as mediated through visual culture, and its subsequent impact on our perception of these representations. The conversation will feature some of Sade’s own work as a filmmaker as well as a discussion of her published academic pieces tackling race and racism in the field of Neuroscience. Attendees will engage with academic and artistic thought in concert with one another, highlighting identity as one of the central themes of informed practice.