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. 

In 2021, Peters curated Blackness Revisualized, WNET/AllArts.org's inaugural afrofuturist film festival. She is also an ongoing Advisor to Sundance Co//ab courses, including "Beyond the First Act"; "Writing Your First Act!" and "Screenwriting: Crafting Your Sci-Fi Feature." In 2019-2020, Peters was a lecturer at Ohio State University. She created the B.A.M.N. (By Any Means Necessary) filmmaking course and Screenwriting Basics course that she's taught to youth and adults. In 2018, she delivered a keynote speech at the NAACP National Convention and attended the Talent Lab at the Reykjavik International Film Festival with feature project Godspeed. In 2017, Peters was awarded a Residency at the Wexner Center for the Arts for her experimental sci-fi short film MISSION. Her screenplays have been prize-winning and recognized in competition. Her work has screened in Los Angeles, Oakland, New York, Berlin, Washington, D.C., Detroit, Cleveland and London; also on public and cable television. She has produced content for Afropunk, New York Comic Con and California African American Museum (L.A.). Peters is an honors graduate of University Michigan with a B.A. in French and Political Science, and holds an M.A. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. She also did graduate studies in clinical psychology at NYU.