Ramona Ramdeen

Ramona Ramdeen, Director and Producer Ramona Ramdeen received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute of Jacksonville's Digital Film and Video Production program. She has created short films, music videos, PSA's and documentaries, and has been nominated for and won scholarships and major awards. In 2014, she produced "Person," a short silent film about a transgendered teen that won a Gold Student Academy Award. Her project, "The Grey Area," a perspective film about our antiquated definitions of gender, won first place in the art category at One Spark, the world's largest crowdfunding festival, in 2015. Her directorial debut, "Curtain of Secrecy," the true story of an affluent African American woman who, in 1952, shot and killed her white lover (a prominent doctor and Florida state senator) and whose trial changed the American justice system, in currently is in consideration for various film festivals. Ramona's background in social work has enabled her to build and lead teams by managing different personalities, and she have a strong sense of how people of different backgrounds and socioeconomic situations interact. Her own personal story has given her the ability to be empathetic and to see all points of view in any given situation. She has a passion for work that addresses social justice, domestic violence issues, and health and wellness issues, and considers herself a "Fixer:" artists come to her with a puzzle and she finds the pieces and fits them together in a beautifully completed project. She prides herself on knowing how each person on a film crew fits together to create a finished product that is both beautiful and socially conscious.