Shia Shabazz Smith

Writer. Director. Educator.

[Shia Shabazz Smith @ShiaSSmith]

The film is in the can. Onward to post production! #Writer #Director #SupportIndieFilm #BayArea #TownBusiness

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Filmmaking is a beautiful BEAST! I am FINALLY taking the leap as a #director. I am working with a group of incredibly talented creatives. Please view our crowdfunding video and #DonateOrShare May the odds be ever in our favor. Every gesture helps. 🙏📽️
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Happy New Year! What’s one of the films I’m looking most forward to seeing this year, you ask? @ava new film #origin based on Caste by @Isabelwilkerson I’m hoping it will motivate me to actually make it through this very important read. 🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾🎬

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New trailer for Ava DuVernay’s ‘ORIGIN’ starring Aunjanue Ellis.

In theaters January 19.

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🙌🏿 #10x10Throwback: Our first volume continues with “It is enough to have known” by #CaveCanemFellow Shia Shabazz Smith (@ShiaSSmith) read by Natasha Oladokun (@NatashaOladokun).

Many thanks to the 100 Cave Canem poets who contributed poems to this project!

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@nordstromrack strap broke on my 10/1st bday purse frm hubby. Emeryville store cashier: “Probly popped it.” (Me?!) Shopped w/$200 GC refund; was followed in store. Security guard watched left behind me, watched til in my car. Nordstrom card holder since 2019. #shoppingwhileblack

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#this Excellent read, @vimalnyt Definitely worth the wait.
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#ProtectBlackWomen #ProtectTirienSteinbeck

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#ProtectTirienSteinbeck She wasn’t wrong. Imagine holding space for your students, for “free speech,” and managing the disrespect and insults of this judge. (May I see an administrator? If a white man had walked in, he wouldn’t have questioned it.) #shameonstanford

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@sciencewithtyus @MsPackyetti Respecting Seinfeld more since this viewing. (Rock… less.)

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@KingDemic @MsPackyetti THAT PART!!!

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@MsPackyetti I wish I hadn’t watched it. Can’t get that hour or the money I put in his pocket back. 😒

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@ConVirtuous was #everything! Grateful for all of the panels and the generosity in the sharing of genius by Black creators. #VirtuousCon #blackjoy #blackgenius #magical #virtual #conference #comics #animation #storytelling #dopeness

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@lesleydoestri CONGRATULATIONS!!! Wowzers!!! I feel incredibly excited for you! Enjoy this moment. May it be a review to all that is to come! 🎊🏆🥂

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“As long as you have incredible passion and focus and stop thinking about where you want to be and being in the moment with where you’re at … That’s where the beauty comes.” Indeed, @lesleydoestri #greatread

[Lesley Paterson @lesleydoestri]

Lesley Paterson: How a world champion triathlete earned an Oscar nomination | CNN https://t.co/djYuJmOeDm

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@lesleydoestri @SFFILM The pleasure was all mine! Sending all good energies for the BAFTA’s, the Oscars, and beyond. So exciting!

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@sffilm + All Quiet on the Western Front key crew = incredible. Thank you @lesleydoestri for being lovely, kind, generous, real. 🙏🏾🫶🏾 Bravo to all!#screenwriters #blackscreenwriters #scripttoscreen #allquietonthewesternfront #dopeness

[Shia Shabazz Smith @ShiaSSmith]

Twitter can be hard for my brain. But I need to get back on this bicycle. Since we were last together, I launched I relaunched my website and I have two new blog posts. You are cordially invited to the party! Write on! #amwriting #screenwriter #blackscreenwriter #newblogpost