Harvest

Natalie Baszile is a writer and filmmaker. Her novel, Friends and Family, follows her nonfiction book, We Are Each Other’s Harvest, and her first book, Queen Sugar, which was adapted for television by Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey. Natalie co-directed the documentary, Harvest, which premiered at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival.

Hyacinth Parker is a director, writer, and producer. Her documentary, Harvest, premiered at Tribeca, and earned a Jury Special Mention for Best New Documentary Director. Her credits include Welcome to Wrexham, The Fall of Diddy, and With Love, Meghan. Hyacinth has received support from Ford Foundation, SFFILM, and Chicken & Egg.

Trevite A. Willis is head of production at Best Yet Entertainment and founder of Southern Fried Filmworks and Festival. With more than 20 credits over two decades, her work includes Harvest, Cannes winner The President’s Cake, Sundance hit The Forty-Year-Old Version, and Broadway’s revival of The Wiz.

Dawn Porter is an award-winning filmmaker whose 2013 documentary Gideon’s Army won the Sundance Film Festival Editing Award, the Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award, and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and an Emmy. The film broadcast on HBO in July 2013 and has been used to engage local communities about indigent defense, the U.S. justice system, and socioeconomic influences on crime. Porter’s other films include Spies of Mississippi (2014, Independent Lens/PBS) and Rise: The Promise of My Brother’s Keeper, a documentary film chronicling President Obama’s program to help young men and boys of color succeed. Dawn interviewed President Obama for the film, which aired nationally on The Discovery Channel and The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in 2015. Porter is a Keppler Speaker, has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and is a returning guest on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show. Prior to her work as a filmmaker, Dawn was director of standards and practices at ABC News and vice president of standard and practices at A&E Television Networks. She graduated from Swarthmore College and Georgetown Law Center and practiced law at the firm of Baker & Hostetler for five years.