Billy Gerard Frank
Founder and Creative Director @Nova Frontier Film Festival & Lab
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WORK HISTORY
Founder and Creative Director @Nova Frontier Film Festival & Lab
Brooklyn, NY, US
Nova Frontier Film Festival and LAB is a timely narrative, documentary and experimental film festival,and multi-disciplinary lab, passionately committed to enhancing and incubating the works offilmmakers and artists from the African diasporas, Latin America, and the Middle East. The LAB whichis a core component of the festival focuses on the development of youth and emerging artists andmedia-makers from underserved and underrepresented communities, strategically located inBrooklyn, Paris, and Marseille, France— Cities that serve as a nexus for immigrants and cross-culturalfertilization. With a program of film screenings, workshops, panels, exhibitions, Virtual Reality Hub, performances, and ongoing Labs, we are a hybrid film festival and LAB that promotes intercultural understanding and intellectual engagement through exceptional films and the arts, addressing critical social issues of our times, while celebrating the diversity that surrounds us. To that aim, our youth LAB is conceived as an incubator and hub, a platform for educating and mentoring the next generation of emerging young talents in the philosophy, skill-sets, and distribution of independent filmmaking and new media.
EDUCATION
National Academy of Fine Arts, NY
Fine and Studio Arts
New York University
Film/Cinema/Video Studies
University of the Arts London
Bachelor’s Degree, Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General
The New School
Communication and Media Studies
SKILLS
ABOUT BILLY GERARD FRANK
Billy Gérard Frank, born in Grenada, West Indies, is an Artist, Filmmaker, and Curator whose research-based practice interrogates personal and collective issues related to race, memory, exile, global politics, post-colonialism, and queer decoloniality. His work challenges and deconstructs normative narratives, using speculation and new imagery to suggest counter-histories. He represented Grenada at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia (2022) and was also part of the collective that represented the island at the 58th La Biennale di Venezia (2019).His mixed-media artworks, films and video installations have been exhibited and screened in group and solo shows at institutions, and international art fairs, such as the Brooklyn Museum, Butler Institute of American Art, Yale Unversity, and Frieze London, and in the permanent collections of institutions, including the Brooklyn Museum, Farnsworth Art Museum, Butler Institute of American Art, and among others. He is the recipient of numerous grants, including support from the Ford Foundation (Just Films). He is a 2024 Creative Capital awardee for a new 5-part film in development loosely exploring Glissant’s book, Poetics of Relation. Frank is also the founder and creative director of the Nova Frontier Film Festival & Lab, which showcases and incubates the work of filmmakers and artists from and about the Global African Diaspora, the Middle East, and Latin America—The global majority. He is a Lecturer in Directing and Design at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and has lectured at institutions such as NYU, the School of Visual Arts, and York University, and a keynote speaker at global symposiums. He moved to London as a teenager, where he began painting and exploring experimental video art and installation before relocating to New York to pursue further studies in studio art at ateliers such as The Art Students League of New York and The National Academy of Fine Arts. He later studied filmmaking and media arts at The New School for Social Research.
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