April Lundy

Filmmaker, writer, producer, director and Assistant Professor of Film and Television Studies at Clark Atlanta University. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Digital Filmmaking & Art Degree and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism Degree from Georgia State University, and Online Teaching certification from the Sloan Online Learning Consortium. Lundy has produced and directed commercials, independent film, music videos, reality television, documentary, corporate industrials and electronic press kits for Bravo, TV One, BET, Warner Brothers Records, Motown Records and LaFace Records. Co-founded two of Southeast's most notable film production companies Film Noire Group and Strange Fruit Films. Within her career as a filmmaker, she has worked artists such as with Tyrese Gibson, Outkast, Whitney Houston, Usher, Bobby Brown, Tony Grant, David Banner, TLC and Goodie Mob. In 1994, co-founded, owned and operated the Film Noire Group Inc. It was cited as one of the first full-service film production companies owned and operated by women of color. The lessons and experiences she garnered with Film Noire led to co-founding, owning and operating Strange Fruit Films in 1997. Lundy directs and produces through her company, Sunsum, LLC. She has produced and directed independent film projects and television programming for Bravo, Sony-Columbia, Black Entertainment Television (BET), TV One, Warner Brothers, LaFace, and Arista. During the summer of 2013, she joined the production team of the biopic, The Last Punch (2016), as a co-producer and line producer. At Clark Atlanta University, she has been awarded the honor of serving as a W.E.B. Dubois Faculty Fellow. In addition to her faculty appointment, served as the Director of Media Internships for the Division of Communication Arts and the Mass Media Arts Film & Film Coordinator. Within the Department of Mass Media Arts, Lundy has contributed to the development and evolution of the course curricula with the creation and development of her "Films of Spike Lee" course and most recently her "Reality TV Production" course. Her scholarly research agenda is focused in the areas of depictions of Blacks in film and television, online and blended teaching, visual rhetoric, visual literacy and spectatorship. Lundy has conducted, presented & published her research internationally in Greece, Turkey, Italy, France, Jamaica, Hawaii & Puerto Rico. (Adapted from her official Autobiography)