I Am Rae Shaw

I am a writer-director-producer. My current projects are Black Kungfu Chick (webseries about a girl who does martial arts to protect her community, The Repass (A post Katrina surreal fantasy-thriller set in NOLA), Salsa Millenia (A hip-hop, salsa dance drama), and The Misidentification of Black Hair (The journey of the perfect hairdo)...

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Portraits of boys & men throughout Haiti.

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The drinks list at #sexspeaks: Get Me Bodied

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Don’t resist the ancestors.

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Jamal’s good spirit.

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Emilliano, do you believe in angels?

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Lovely ladies from London visiting New York talk about #whatisyrrepass.

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This is the first in a series of interviews we completed to launch our "What is Your Repass?" campaign, a campaign to stir up a social media buzz to see this powerful film made. We wanted people to...

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Memories of home (Salsa Millenia)

Home meant so many things to me, the smell of my mother’s pineapple cake baking in the oven, my father’s aftershave as he told me stories of his boyhood in La Habana, and the sunken chair that carried the sweet smell of his cigar long after he had smoked.

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The Repass tumblr is going wicked! We're taking this opportunity to transition The Repass blog into the all of the works of writer-director-producer Rae Shaw under her banner Wicked Lovely Films. Look for posts on The Repass but on other Wicked Lovely Films projects including Salsa Millenia and The Misidentifycation of Black Hair.

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Engaging the Disengaged

When I teach or meet up and coming filmmakers one of the things they constantly ask is: how can I prevent losing a crew or a cast member? I usually start by giving them some highlights about things they can do, but basically it all starts with one word, engagement.

Engagement is a complex process especially in the movie business but it applies to truly any position in the working world.

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Would love to have Omar Sy play the character Baron Samedi in The Repass. He's a wonderful actor.

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Houngan (Vodou priest). Central Plateau, Haiti