Biography
Atlanta native, April Lundy is a writer, producer, director, and Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at Clark Atlanta University. She holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Digital Filmmaking & Art and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism from Georgia State University. She is also the Interim Chair of Clark Atlanta University's Department of Mass Media Arts.
Lundy has produced, directed, and served as Story Producer for commercials, independent films, music videos, reality television, and documentaries for Bravo, TV One, BET, Warner Brothers Records, Motown Records, and LaFace Records. Additionally, she co-founded two of Southeast's most notable women-owned film production companies, Film Noire Group and Strange Fruit Films. Her work on the independent feature biopic about Muhammed Ali, The Last Punch (2016), earned a premier at the 2016 Pan African Film Festival. Within her career as a filmmaker, she has worked with artists such as Whitney Houston, Keith David, André 3000, Big Boi, CeeLo Green, TLC, Brian McKnight, David Banner, India Arie and Usher. Notable film students of hers are GeffriMaya, Terayle Hill, and Taylor Polidore Williams.
Lundy's publications and scholarly research are focused on the areas of intersectionality - depictions of Black women in film and television content visual literacy and spectatorship. She has published, conducted, and presented her research internationally in Greece, Turkey, Italy, France, Jamaica, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. She teaches Storytelling, Screenwriting, Film Theory, and Film Producing and Directing.
