TAJIANNA OKECHUKWU

Tajianna Okechukwu is an Actor/filmmaker from the Bay Area. As a little girl, she was always fascinated by characters and visuals on screen. Her eyes were constantly glued to the TV. She was an avid reader as a child so fictional storytelling was always a part of her world. She grew up watching her mother in the arts & entertainment industries which inspired her to pursue filmmaking. 

 

She is a multidisciplinary creative with training & experience in performance and film theory. As a storyteller, She strives to create stories that explore issues through the Black experience. She directs short-form content and does event videography in addition to acting in short films and commercials. She strives to create projects that will shift paradigms and shake culture in our society by pushing the envelope and putting a mirror up to the world so it can look at itself. She is always looking to “network across” as Issa Rae says it. Naturally, telling stories that center Black livelihood is the biggest value to her as we have been traditionally misrepresented and underrepresented in front and behind the camera. Representation matters and she is dedicated to seeing it through that she uses her gifts to model effective ways of what that looks like through entertainment.