Writer | Director | Storyteller
Chanel Dupree
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About Me:
Chanel Dupree is an award winning screenwriter and director based in NYC. Her second film “Next Stop” earned her “Best Female Director” and is currently streaming on NoBudge. Chanel has written in several writers’ rooms, including her web series “Black Retail” that won her “Best Comedy” & “Best Web series”. A winner of Spec that Scene, a finalist for Women Write Now, finalist of BLACK BOY/GIRL WRITES MEDIA and A fellow of BRIC’s Screenwriters Lab, Chanel’s work can be found on Shadow & Act, HuffPost and African Voices.
Television/film
Shoulders (2017)
Next Stop (2022)
Black Retail
(2023)
“You Think Grown? Dismantling Adultification” (2024)
You Think You Grown?: Dismantling Adultification is a feature documentary exploring the origins of Adultification & its connection to the violence towards black girls and women.
Black Retail is a half hour comedy following the lives & friendships of three black millennial women navigating the ebbs and flows of adultin' while working in the hair pulling world of retail.
A surrealistic dark comedy following a woman's return back home
Next Stop is currently streaming on NoBudge
After a troubling fight with her mother Monica spends the day with the only home she's ever known.
awards
Spec That Scene: Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Top 25 pick: Black Retail
2021: Finalist
Contact ME
chaneldupreefilms@gmail.com
