[Behind The Scenes] #TestUpMKE [a creative campaign] w/ CopyWrite Magazine

Check out BTS footage from our creative campaign photoshoot for #TestUpMKE, a Covid-19 testing, information, and support platform based in Milwaukee, WI.

This video not only serves as a visual for the campaign but also showcases how creatives can be #SociallyResponsible while collaborating in a pandemic. 

We hope it inspires you to reimagine the practice of making, while being safe, informed and of course Covid-19 Tested all the way up!

Learn more at https://www.testupmke.com/

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Original Art by Vedale Hill

Photography by Destined Visuals

Videography byMalique Savage

Music by Genesis Renji

[Fashion] Project Management by Vato Vergara

[Fashion] Creative Direction by Imani Ortiz

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

CopyWrite Mag Press Interview w/ Marquise Mays, Film Director of The Heartland (Short Film)

CopyWrite's Editor-in-Chief, Lexi S. Brunson and Intern Tanasia Shaw, chat with director of The Heartland Marquise Mays about his new short film, Black Culture in Milwaukee, creating in a pandemic and more! This refreshing Saturday morning convo gives a glimpse into a narrative that we can no longer circumvent…

A space for Black Culture right here in Milwaukee, The Heartland.

Marquise Mays is a filmmaker and media scholar based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He holds a M.A from the University of Southern California and a B.A from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work presents an opportunity for Black kids to be proud to call this place home. As an independent filmmaker, Marquise’s films have been screened nationally and internationally. Most recently, he worked as an Associate Producer on the Student Academy Award Winning Film, The Dope Years: The Untold Story of Latasha Harlins.

The Heartland, is a film developed and produced in part with Leaders Igniting Transformation (LIT) for  their inaugural Artist Activist Fellowship. At LIT, they focus on building a solid future that is young, Black, Brown and LIT. This year they have developed their strategy to include Cultural Organizing in order to shift culture by developing leaders, known as artist activists. Artist Activists use their creativity to speak truth, as well as move people to feel empowered to shift  culture and make systemic change. 

- via LIT (Leaders Igniting Transformation)

Learn more at @theheartlandfilm on instagram.

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CopyWrite's Editor-in-Chief, Lexi S. Brunson and Intern Tanasia Shaw chat with director of The Heartland Marquise Mays about his new short film, Black Cultur...