Director Arielle Knight is a New York and Mexico based documentary filmmaker and creative producer. Mining the absurd, the mythological and the mundane, the work of her life and practice seeks to center and recover the multiplicity of Black experiences and the narrative possibilities therein. Through her own filmmaking practice and in collaboration with like-minded creators, Arielle aims to inundate the world with the dreams, visions, and beauty of Black lives on screen.

Arielle is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the New School for Public Engagement, where she received an MA in Media Studies & Documentary Filmmaking. She has since produced work for audiences at Sundance, MoMA Doc Fortnight, Camden, Big Sky and Sheffield Documentary film festivals. In the past year alone, Arielle has produced films that have taken top prizes at renowned festivals including TIFF, Tribeca Film Festival and BlackStar.

Her work has been sustained through the support of the Jacob Burns Creative Culture Fellowship, Chicken and Egg, NYC Women’s Fund for Media in association with the New York Foundation for the Arts, If/Then and Field of Vision. Arielle is a member of the Brown Girls Doc Mafia and her film Loot was selected as one of twelve feature films to participate in their inaugural development workshop with seasoned advisors from across the industry. In 2020 she was selected as one of four emerging directors to receive funding and support from Tribeca Studios and Queen Latifah’s Queen Collective, her short film A Song of Grace premiered at the Tribeca film festival in 2021 and won Best Documentary short at the 2021 Idlewild Film Festival.