Celia C. Peters is an avant-garde filmmaker and visual artist exploring the horizons of character-driven work that features an organic spectrum of rich stories that reflect the world around us. Peters is a member of New York Women in Film and Television and the Writers Guild of America. She was awarded a 2012 residency at Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers in Midlothian, Scotland. Her psychologically inspired, character-driven screenwriting has been both prize-winning and recognized in competition. Her filmmaker credits include the experimental performance piece, “Poem in Motion (2011),” the short documentary “Rethinking Beauty (2011),” and “Editing Uptown (2010),” a featurette on the nationally distributed DVD of the indie film, “Uptown.” In 2007, Peters produced a half-hour segment, “The State of Hip-Hop” for WHUT/PBS and her short film “Breakthrough (2006),” was broadcast nationally on BET’s The Best Shorts series. Peters is also the creator and producer of the dramatic reading series “The Next 15 MinutesTM,” and has produced staged readings at Tribeca Film Center and the National Black Theater of Harlem. Her visual graphic art, photography and video work have shown at galleries in Detroit, New York, London and Dallas. Her experimental short “FIOFY (Figure It Out For Yourself)” was featured in 'Conjuration,' a 2011 exhibit in tribute to Jean-Michel Basquiat in NYC and it also screened in the 2013 Festival of Art and Music revolution in London. Peters is an graduate of University Michigan with an honors B.A. in French and Political Science, and holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. As well, she has done graduate studies in clinical psychology at New York University. Currently, Peters is developing her first feature film, the sci-fi project Godspeed, as well completing post-production of her sci-fi short film Roxë15. 

 

From Peters:

The foundation of my work lies in the psychology and emotional density of the human experience.

             

I believe that creativity leads us along a path of evolution and I’m captivated by the way narratives, whether in film or visual art, create emotional experiences. My desire is to engage the audience with a beguiling combination of imagery, concept and character. My goal as an artist is to grab onto what is universal amongst us and move forward through this human experience until I reach new horizons.