Advance Your Art: From Artist To Creative Entrepreneur

MEET RACHEL MYERS:Rachel has been creating work in front and behind the camera for over 20 years in the entertainment industry as a director, designer, and actor. She has collaborated in the creation of over 150 films, theatre, and television productions. From a pool of over 5,000 submissions, her film “Wendy’s Shabbat” premiered at both the 2018 Tribeca International and Palm Springs International Film Festivals and at over 50 other film festivals worldwide. “Wendy’s Shabbat” qualified for the 2019 Academy Awards and was broadcast on PBS, POV, and TOPIC. Rachel was awarded the first solo Shondaland Women’s Directing Mentorship to direct for Shonda Rhimes Television, nominated for the inaugural Lynn Shelton “Of a Certain Age” Grant, and selected for the Sundance Director’s Co-Lab. Rachel has directed films, 2 Black Boys, based on the poetry of Giovanni Adams on blackness and queer identity which premiered at OUTFEST, Cannes AVIFF, and Winner of Cadence Video Festival at the Northwest Film Forum. Rachel has di