India King Robins

15+ years of growing from teacher friends to mom friends. The trip made it out of the group chat. Houston owes us nothing!

I’m grateful to be able to learn and grow with filmmakers in Louisiana. In the past year, I have made films, traveled to L.A. to collaborate with studio partners, hosted a production day at my house, gave a speech at a film festival with my daughter by my side and wrote a few compelling grants if I say so myself. My work is all about keeping resources flowing to creatives. New Orleans is a city filled with purpose-driven organizations, and I feel grateful to be in action with so many other leaders in this community. @novacvideo has been around since 1972. This tape archive you see has productions about police brutality, culture bearers, & housing rights. We’ve always been about telling community stories while teaching people to work in film. Our classes teach students how to design and edit. Our job placement services help people get jobs in the film industry. The local film community is skilled and resilient. Help us keep the A in access and give a donation to THE New Orleans Video ACCESS Center this GiveNOLA Day! /organization/novac

Introducing the 2026 NOVAC Legacy Dinner Honorees  For more than 50 years, NOVAC has supported storytellers, preserved cultural history, and created pathways into film and media careers. This year, we honor four extraordinary leaders who helped make that legacy possible: Garrett Bradley
Gene Fredericks
Darcy McKinnon @darcytomeetyou 
Tim Ryan @genxglampingguy Join us June 17 as we celebrate the builders and invest in the future. Honor the builders. Fund the future. Purchase tickets or tables now — link in our Linktree. The NOVAC Legacy Dinner is hosted in partnership with Dee Speed @deedee9_14 , our board member, and supported in part by Bacchanal Fine Wine & Spirits @bacchanalwine & Bacchanal Catering @bacchanalcatering #NOVAC #LegacyDinner #SupportTheArts

I’m an Aries sun, Leo moon and Leo rising. Nothing can cool down a triple fire sign like the water. My spirit wanted a beach bEARTHday, and she manifested. And I LOVE my people down because I was poured into. What the young people saying on TikTok? “I am the birthday?” #beachEARTHday

39 💕✨💐 One more year as a thirty something, and I am saluting little India. I mean, she deserves a round of applause. I see her fully, and she is everything she knew she could be. She is confident, clear, focused, ambitious, hopeful, smart, & very loved. This little girl is still with me. I am so proud of who I am because of who she had to be. She held a lot early, and she’s still holding. And in that responsibility there is ritual and tradition and preservation of a lineage of immaculate black woman. And this little girl reminds me to rest because all of the work is already done. We came this far by faith and labor. I will make her visible. Because this girl is from God. This girl is from the sweat, tears and prayers of ancestors that dreamed and still protect. This girl is me, and I am here for her. We are doing this life one step at a time. It is everything it is, and it will be everything it will be. We will frolic and dance and laugh and gossip and play and create and love and feel and cry and grow. We will do whatever we want. Because we are that girl and we always will be.

Easter bunnies. 🐇

They say it takes a village to raise a child, and I give thanks for the way our village showed up in celebration of Audre’s 6th birthday. The love and care we have is unmatched, and it is reflected in the joy our girl gets to have. To year six and whatever that means 💐💕💕✨

Today doesn’t owe me anything. ##femmefatale## I’m grateful for old and new friends, reimagining and creating joy, and the sun.

The joy of New Orleans be loud & seen. It be quiet & hidden. It be behind closed doors that open into magical gardens. It be green & it be purple. And oh, yea, it beeeeezzz black. It be draped with Spanish moss & greeting you with a smile. It be written & be it be rehearsed. It be flowing & it be from the soul. It be Poetry on the Porch, long hugs, king cake, music, words, motion & love. And thank God, It be right here when we all need it. @thinktank20 @getchasumjelly @icontheartist @dawnrichard

Super grateful for the opportunity to work with the wonderfully talented @j_nicolecollins again! This film project @pullover and the deep message it carries is so near to my heart. Sending a huge thank you to the amazing cast and crew!

PULLOVER. What a journey you have been so far. I love you. What started as a creative work of release for my younger self and my kid has turned into a beautiful movement, where we recently filmed with amazing creatives who I’d want to work with for the rest of my creative “working” days. SO MANY THANK YOUs! Thank you to the team, the talented cast (my people), @docraimist for your mentorship, Jasmine, Davida, & Sherae, Adrian @yeaux_adrian for letting us take over his house, our donors, the top 10 TP Dream Collective, Mr. Jacquet, Newman School, Ms. Corice Saunders, Ms. Janice, SIPP, my prayer warrior team (Mom, Candy, Tonya), Mama Jenn and Mama Vera, Con, DJ, Andrea and the McKennas, Diane & Mesha & Lamara Cafe, Nahlia, supporters, & GOD. For real. God & I talked early Sunday morning, and God told me to chill because I started to worry about the rain. I chilled, and God provided dryness and sunshine on what was forecasted to be another rain day. 9 ppl who worked on Sinners were present! The people listed below… please always consider working with them. This is OUR project, and we all handled it so beautifully. Director/Producer/Writer: 😬 Producer: @indykrobs13 Associate Producer: @crowned.mahogany Assistant Director: @astridsims.art DP: @calvinbluejrdp Production Design: @major_motion_timotheus Onset Dresser: @angie.earley 1st AC: @koesting_along_ 2nd AC/Loaders: @sienna.pinderhughes  & @valdagrain Gaffer: @upt_dino Key Grip: @marsh_minnow Swing: Oluwafemi Etaje Script Supervisor: @keenamity Costume Design: @cmhstyle Costume Assistant: @simone.sdj Key Make Up: Allison LaCour @allisonlacour Key Hairstylist: Monique Young HMU Assistant: Jarrell “Alena” Burrle Property Master: @omw2datop__ Sound Mixer: @andrew_m_deritter Boom Operator: @deritter.thomas Underwater Camera: @alabamaqueer Production Assistant: @takeabri.ther BTS: @xox_miracle Original art: @goodlinabadlina & @astridsims.art Lyndria and Co-Writer: @aadyn_encalarde Tiffany: Ariadne Joseph @ariadneljoseph Kelly: @lylabugsworld Derek: @therealsammalone Draco: @_w_i_l_c_o_x_ Joe: @sharacusnluck EP: Jennifer Collins, @a_k_yates @doc.flanagan Equipment Scholarship: @panavisionofficial

Proud is an understatement. Pullover’s cast and crew blew me away. Filmmakers in Louisiana are top tier. And our cast delivered. We had three locations, took over a whole house and really brought our fearless director’s vision to life. So humbled and grateful for an opportunity to be in creative flow with you all. Director/Producer/Writer: @j_nicolecollins Producer: @indykrobs13 Associate Producer: @crowned.mahogany Assistant Director: @astridsims.art DP: @calvinbluejrdp Production Design: @major_motion_timotheus Onset Dresser: @angie.earley 1st AC: @koesting_along_ 2nd AC/Loaders: @sienna.pinderhughes and @valdagrain Gaffer: @upt_dino Key Grip: @marsh_minnow Swing: Oluwafemi Etaje Script Supervisor: @keenamity Costume Design: @cmhstyle Costume Assistant: @simone.sdj Key Make Up: Allison LaCour Key Hairstylist: Monique Young HMU Assistant: Jarrell “Alena” Burrle Property Master: @omw2datop__ Sound Mixer: @andrew_m_deritter Boom Operator: @deritter.thomas Underwater Camera: @alabamaqueer Production Assistant: @takeabri.ther BTS: Miracle Mckinnies Lyndria Martin and Co-Writer: @aadyn_encalarde Tiffany Martin: @ariadneljoseph Kelly Martin: @lylabugsworld Derek Martin: @therealsammalone Draco: @_w_i_l_c_o_x_ Joe: @sharacusnluck Equipment Scholarship: @panavisionofficial The House: @yeaux_adrian We really made magic and can’t wait to share the work with you. Here’s to resting, and then getting this film through post!