Rada Studio

Our mission is to create compelling visual stories that provoke thought about our complex multicultural world.

09/04/2025

“If I had known this history, if I had learned this history in high school or even in college, to a certain extent, my relationship to Canada would’ve been different. Maybe I wouldn’t have left. Maybe I would have found more grounding and rootedness there.”

- True North Director Michèle Stephenson, on what she uncovered while researching Black history in Canada

Thank you to and for this beautiful write-up.

Full article in bio

09/03/2025

Rada Collaborative Incubator Fellows Alfredo Alcántara () & Isabel Alcántara (.atalaya)

Catch the premiere of their fellowship film “The Age of Water” on September 8th, 2025.

08/12/2025

Imaging Improvisation, a screening series by Dani Brito ()

The final installment: Improvisation As Refusal.

Screenings works by & | followed by artist Q&A.

🗓️ August 21st, 7:30pm

📍Anthology Film Archives | 32 2nd Ave

08/06/2025

“Premiering at Toronto International Film Festival () - “True North” a film by Michèle Stephenson ().

Through never before seen compelling historical footage and the voices of those who lived through the tumultuous period of 1960s Montréal, TRUE NORTH uses a bold cinematic aesthetic that centers the power of memory and archive to expose the pivotal events of a moment that impacted the global movement for Black liberation.

“And in some ways this story could be like a chapter of ‘Eyes on the Prize’ if ‘Eyes on the Prize’ covered all of North America and not just the United States. It’s classic story of Civil Rights only in this case in Montreal.” - Deadline.

08/05/2025

owes us nothing!

The Rada Collab team had an incredible time in Philly this weekend celebrating Black and Brown cinema for liberation.

Co-presenting BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions () was an honor and a privilege, and we were thrilled to offer comp. tickets to members of our Rada Collab network.

Sign up for the newsletter at the link in our bio to keep up with opportunities from Rada, and meet up with us whenever we may be next!

07/31/2025

Rada Collaborative Curatorial Fellow ‘25
Daniella Brito ()

Catch Dani at the last installment of their screening series “Imaging Improvisation” on August 21st at

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07/29/2025

Rada Collaborative x 2025

Support cinema for liberation! Join us this July 31 – Aug 3 in person in Philadelphia or online around the globe for four days of ground-breaking films from Black, Brown, and Indigenous makers.

Rada Collab is partnering with for a special screening of “BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions” - August 1st, @ 9pm

Grab your tickets now and checkout the full lineup at the link in our bio.

Hope to see you there 🤎

07/17/2025

Thrilled to announce the third program for IMAGING IMPROVISATION at on June 24th.

“Choreographies of Spectacality” features works by Jonathan González () and NIC Kay () that engage with camera and the Internet’s role in improvisatory movement, recognizing digital mediation as an instigator of annotation.

NIC Kay arranges an archive of Black gestural virality across their research project, , taking a close look at the textures and tonalities of spectacality.

Works like WAIT, WAIT, WAIT (RENEGADE), US FOR IS THIS, and THRU IT ALL, incorporate hypnotic repetition and glitchy documentation – distinctive framing devices for how Blackness is codified and sensationalized on screen. González also interrogates the mediated gaze, blending a range of performance tactics and filmic histories to manipulate spectatorship.

In BLUES TIME, the artist uses animation to chronicle the relationship between the body and geography, arranging renderings of their form between cityscapes and syncopated soundscapes.

Within their Super-8 black-and-white short, BODY PREFERENCES, González captures a subject performing a therapeutic practice entitled Authentic Movement, wherein the clinician watches their patient move with closed eyes. Here, the artist documents the performer as they feel their way through two landmarks of resistance: New York City’s Hudson River Piers – a geography critical to the city’s q***r history – and an open-air stage in Barbados, located in one of the few areas on the island not transformed into a plantation.

Stick around for a Q&A after the screening with , and !

Tickets over at

07/16/2025

Who we are, and what we do.

06/24/2025

“There Goes Nikki” our immersive installation in collaboration with closes at this weekend (June 28, 29).

But don’t worry!

We’ve got plans to bring this powerful experience to more audiences across the world. Watching people go on this intergalactic journey with Nikki Giovanni has been an absolute joy.

Thanks to the & .onx for their unparalleled support throughout this process.

Ticket link in bio 🎟️

05/15/2025

An impactful conversation and screening of our feature documentary “American Promise” (2013), moderated by the brilliant

Thank you to & for inviting us to reexamine this intimate piece from our canon.

🎥 This film is available to view on

We’re excited to be back at tonight for our screening series “Imaging Improvisation” curated by Rada Collaborative Curatorial Fellow Daniella Brito ().

🎟️ Tickets available in our bio!!

12/10/2024

Nikki Giovanni, our luminary in the world of literature and an uncompromising voice for justice and Black liberation has transitioned to the next dimension. There is a deep ache in our hearts as her spiral of life is now beyond what we can see. Her own words serve as solace and healing as we embrace the future without her physical presence. Nikki leaves us with an incomparable legacy rich with words that inspire and an unapologetic guide to living life and speaking truth. As we reflect on her remarkable journey, we find ourselves intertwined with her narrative through our own quest to illuminate the multifaceted lives of our people. Nikki’s fearless expression of her personal truth inspired us to delve deeper into our own narratives with uncompromising resolve.

As we bid farewell and safe travels to Nikki, we honor her legacy by committing ourselves to continue the work of weaving complicated narratives that reflect the beauty, pain, and richness of the Black diaspora. Her voice will forever resonate in our hearts and in our craft.

Rest in peace among the stars, Nikki. Your light guides us as we continue the struggle.

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About Us

Back in 2006, the Rada Film Group began as a partnership between husband and wife team Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson with a mission: To create compelling visual stories that provoke thought about the complex multicultural world we exist in.

This commitment was made before the creation of the company. “Our work is an expression of our own personal mission to use visual storytelling to better understand our experiences as people of color navigating American society.” Trying to balance family life with their artistic passions during the intervening years leading up to the creation of the Rada Film Group, Michèle and Joe produced narrative films, documentaries and new media that challenge and inspire audiences across the world to think critically about their own place and roles in society.

Our approach to visual storytelling is intimate while simultaneously giving voice to larger issues that directly affect communities of color. “In our work we try very hard to avoid clichés about our communities and attempt to scratch beneath the surface to where answers are not always easy,” says Brewster. “We use the art form to explore our ambivalence about issues and question our own and our subjects’ points of comfort. It is in those grey areas that art is created and where change can be affected for us as individuals as well as for the constantly shifting communities we reside in.”