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DRESS Heidi Ackerman / HAT Alexander McQueen / NAILS Koco Nails, PA
DRESS Heidi Ackerman / NAILS Koco Nails, PA
SHOES Christian Louboutin
DRESS Felicity Brown / CUFF Lorraine West Jewelry, NYC / SHOES Christian Louboutin / NAILS Koco Nails, PA
SHOES Sam Edelman
DRESS Heidi Ackerman / FUR Andrew Wedge / CUFFS Lorraine West Jewelry, NYC / SHOES Sam Edelman / NAILS Koco Nails, PA
DRESS Heidi Ackerman / CUFFS Lorraine West Jewelry, NYC / SHOES Sam Edelman / NAILS Koco Nails, PA
DRESS Felicity Brown / CUFF Lorraine West Jewelry, NYC / NAILS Koco Nails, PA
Lead
Ayo Janeen Jackson
Ayo Janeen Jackson is currently a candidate for an MFA in the arts at School of the Art Institue of Chicago: SCIAC (2018). She has BFA from North Carolina School of the Arts.
Miss Jackson; a former member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Ballet Preljocaj, has starred in numerous films and episodic television including episodes of Boardwalk Empire, and The Nick; the film Black Navity as well as the opera Ann Nicole. Miss Jackson was also an original cast member of the broadway play Spider-Man.
A recipient of the Princess Grace Award in dance, Miss Jackson choreographed An Octoroon in Philadelphia performance piece. Her visual artwork has been on display at La Maison d’Art and The Harlem Arts festival in NYC (2016).
Director & Editor
Sewra G Kidane
Sewra G Kidane is a New York City based, award winning Commercial Film Editor, with over 10 years of experience editing with some of New York City’s top advertising agencies, networks and heavy hitters in the music industry. Her love for working with fashion and beauty based film projects lead her to want to direct her own and first fashion film.
Noticing Black film and Black fashion missing from the fashion film circuit, Ms. Kidane decided to create her own lane and fashion film. Having been in the post production industry for upwards of 15 years, Ms. Kidane curated a select group of skilled and creative colleagues blazing paths in their own respective lanes to work on Proclamation Punctuation.
Creating stretches farther than just creative editing, and now directing. She is also an accomplished jeweler of her own line; Waist Beads by Sewra, specializing in artistry beading and contemporary waist beads; an ancient tradition of adornment.
Editing and beading go hand in hand, as one inspires the other to push forward. Waist bead designs, like edit cuts, start off as distinct separate elements, that in the end, come together to form a beautifully strung ensemble.
IG: @SewraGee