JAMEKA Autry

producer + founder

Jameka Autry (she/her) is an award-winning filmmaker and investigative storyteller. Her work is dedicated to centering documentary storytelling around themes of underrepresentation and invisibility throughout non-fiction features, shorts, and series.

Jameka is a 2022 Sundance Catalyst Fellow, 2020 Women at Sundance | Adobe Fellow, and 2019 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow. She was a recipient of the 2017 Impact Partners Documentary Producers Fellowship and selected for the inaugural DOC NYC ‘40 Under 40’ list. In 2019 she was awarded the Sundance/A&E Brave Storyteller Award, and received a post graduate fellowship at the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. In 2022 she was selected for the prestigious Ford Foundation JustFilms/Rockwood Fellowship.

Jameka is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and attended Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies. She is a mentor at DocNYC, a member of SFFILM’s Creative Advisory Board, and serves on the board of Investigative Studios.