Djali Brown-Cepeda

Djali Brown-Cepeda is an award-winning filmmaker and archivist born, bred, and based in New York City. An archivist, Djali is the founder of Nuevayorkinos, a visual archive documenting New York City's Latino culture and history through family photos and stories. Her work has been displayed at New York City's El Museo del Barrio and MoMA PS1, and California's MACLA, featured in multiple publications, including The New Yorker, Dazed Digital, The New York Times, and Latina Magazine. A filmmaker, her credits include the Cannes-award winning Railroad Ties and the Tribeca-premiering DOC NYC Audience Award recipient La Madrina: The Savage Life of Lorine Padilla. Most recently, she produced and co-wrote everything's gonna be all white, a four-part documentary series on Showtime exploring race, identity, and navigating what it means to be nonwhite in the U.S.