FILM ON PRODUCTION NOW!
I am an Ethiopian-German Female Artist who lives in Toronto and Berlin. I am an actress and filmmaker. I am interested in creating a safe space, empower females and minority narratives, since they haven’t been voiced enough.
BENITA BAILEY
IS CHANGING THE GAME
"Die Pflegionärin" online: ardmediathek - nominated for the 20th German Hearing Film Award
CREATING
#yellit
#Yell It From The Mountain is a show featuring Black artists of the performing arts. Since the death of George Floyd and the revival of the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement, the discussion about racism and structural racism has globally been reignited. As much as these discussions are necessary as artists we need to have a safe space where we can talk freely about our art without having to explain world order issues that continuously allow for our oppression.
Currently in production #yellit season 3 in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Toronto, Böll Foundation & LABEL NOIR.
#diasporakidz
Diasporakidz is a collective of eight performing artists from all over Canada who came together digitally to create a new piece with the working title "No one knows yet" With the support of the MAI and grounded in Diane Roberts Arrivals Legacy Project the all female-identifying collective has created an environment for the voices and the stories of their ancestors to not only emerge from them but also mingle with each other. Through these stories a new piece linking their past, present and future will be created. While doing so Diasporakidz will be implementing and testing out real and practical ways of decolonizing not only ideas of performance, from the rehearsal hall to the stage, but most importantly of themselves.
ACTING
Incredibly diverse interest meets a rebellious voice and a tendency to be more of a natural beauty – ready to inspire the future of Germany’s and Canada’s acting world.
Starring as the lead in "Die Pflegionärin" as of spring 2022.
EDUCATING
Lecturer at Macromedia University Cours Florent Berlin, Basics Seminar Acting
Guest Lecturer at Ludwig-Maximillians-University Munich, Dramaturgy
Guest Lecturer at Filmakademie Ludwigsburg
Co-facilitator assisting Diane Roberts @ CREAM, University of Westminster, UK & Concordia University Montreal
Workshop Facilitator, Advisor & Speaker on the topic of Diversity in Film
Heirs
May and Bobby meet after the death of their mother at the estate administrator’s office. Old memories, conflicts and an inheritance are being negotiated today - whether they like it or not.
I'm a Woman
“I’m a Woman” won the cell phone short film competition of Pro Quote Regie at the Berlinale 2017. The task was to deal with the topics sexism, racism and homophobia in 2-3 minutes.
Die Dieks
Two sisters grow up in World War II and their fates could not be more different, what unites them is the fight for survival.
"Die Dieks" is currently in development.
