Celia C. Peters is a filmmaker creating daring futurist stories about intriguing, authentic characters. Peters is currently developing her afrofuturist feature film GODSPEED with producers Gabrielle Glore, Erika Alexander and Ben Arnon. She is a 2024 Artist-in-Residence with the Betti Ono Foundation and was curator of the 2024 Black History Month film program at the SFO (Airport) Museum. She directed and co-produced SHUTDOWN (2023), a historical documentary presented by The Ohio State University and in 2022, she launched her science fiction audio drama DOMESTICATED. In 2022, Peters was named a Cultural Strategist in Government for the City of Oakland at the African American Museum and Library of Oakland. In this role, she is creating digital and immersive media from Oakland's Black history and producing a short documentary on Huey P. Newton, which is forthcoming in 2025. more...