Selah and the Spades
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2017
Logline
Once upon a time, a girl named Selah started Pontomic High School’s most merciless gang: The Spades. Captivated by the pleasures and dangers of power, Selah is both charming and callous when deciding who to keep close and who to ruin.
STEPHEN LOVE
PRODUCER
Stephen Love is a graduate of USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program, an alum of Film Independent's Project Involve Lab and was selected for the 2015 Sundance Producing Fellowship. His first feature, The Land, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was theatrically released last summer by IFC Films.
Tayarisha Poe
SCREENWRITER, DIRECTOR
Tayarisha Poe is a filmmaker and photographer whose work has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine, IndieWire, and Superselected. She was chosen as one of the 25 New Faces by Filmmaker Magazine, and received the Sundance Institute’s Knight Foundation Fellowship. She just completed the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
Lauren McBride
PRODUCER
Lauren McBride is an independent film producer based in New York City. Born and raised in Atlanta, GA, she studied Film Studies and Economics at Swarthmore College. She is currently a Program Manager at Google, and is passionate about working closely with filmmakers to realize their vision.
Terence Nance
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Terence Nance was born in Dallas, Texas in what was then referred to as the State-Thomas community. Nance learned personhood there. Nance’s first feature film, AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY, premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2013. In 2014, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow.