Naima Ramos-Chapman

Naima Ramos-Chapman tells stories of transformation and understated bravery by rendering the juxtaposition of psycho-spiritual realities we can not see alongside the normalized brutalities “hiding” in everyday life. Their first short, AND NOTHING HAPPENED, explored the psychological aftermath of a sexual assault and premiered at the 2016 Slamdance Film Festival. Their second short, PIU PIU, a meditation on frontier justice and victimhood ontology, premiered at Slam Dance Festival in 2018. Also in 2018, they wrote, directed, acted in, and edited the season finale for the Peabody award-winning Random Acts of Flyness (HBO). In 2020, as part of a multi-media installation produced by Aljazeera Contrast, they wrote and directed STILL HERE, a virtual reality experience about the obstacles black women face who re-enter society after being kidnapped and traumatized by the prison industrial complex. It premiered in the New Frontiers section of the Sundance Film Festival. In 2020-2022 they wrote and co-produced on the critically acclaimed cult classic TV series Betty (HBO), a coming-of-age story of a diverse group of young women navigating their lives through the predominantly male world of skateboarding. Naima is currently in the metaphorical woods developing several projects in the docu-narrative hybrid space that center people taking back their power after surviving hierarchal abuses internalized by the dominant social order.