Full Name
Christian Epps
Job Title
Founder / Lighting Designer
Company
Lights, Camera, Diaspora!
Speaker Bio
Christian Epps is a lighting designer who has spanned more than four decades in major motion pictures, broadcast television, commercials, live theater, dance, music videos and special events. Directors include Ava DuVernay, Spike Lee, Regina King, Mara Brock-Akil, Vincent Haycock and Andrew Dosunmo. Talent includes 1st Lady Michelle Obama, Pres. Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Adam Sandler, Adam Sandler, Denzel Washington, Tessa Thompson, Kevin Hart, Jamie Foxx, LeBron James and Michael Jordan, As a Chief Lighting Technician; the critically acclaimed and award winning film, "Selma", featuring Oprah Winfrey. As wells the visually-groundbreaking films ‘Belly’, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, ‘Clockers’ as well as Lovecraft Country, Sylvie’s Love, and Thor - Love & Thunder. He has done projects for HBO, Netflix, FOX, CBS, ABC, Paramount, Disney, Warner Brothers, VH1, BET, MTV and Amazon. Some of Mr. Epps’ TV shows include American Horror Stories Scared, All American: Homecoming, Forever and The Olympics. Commercials for Nike, Calvin Klein, Prada, Cadillac, Lincoln, Mc Donalds, GE, Sprite, TBS and more.
In 2006 he began working professionally Africa designing concerts in Nigeria. Artists featured were, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Rhianna, Usher, Shakira, John Legend, Snoop Dogg, Chris Brown, Missy, Mary Jay Blige. Christian lit NETFLIX’s first Original African production, QUEEN SONO’ in Johannesburg, South Africa and Netflix’s first original production in Nigeria (unnamed). His professional work in Africa has included the AMVCA Awards, reality shows, and 3 Nollywood films. In 2014 he and others, founded Lights, Camera, Diaspora!, a Hollywood-based social enterprise nonprofit that bridges the gap between the African and African-Diaspora entertainment production industries. Since 2015, LCD! has conducted over 51 technical workshops, masterclasses and job placements in 8 countries in Africa. 2017 he received Africa Diaspora Awards’ Creative Person Of The Year Award. MULTICHOICE, the largest broadcaster in Africa, has partnered with LCD! to do masterclasses in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Zambia. LCD! Recently donated lighting equipment to the Zambian film community facilitated by the Los Angeles-Lusaka Sister City, placed a Nigerian cinematographer on an HBO show shooting in Hollywood as a training, placed trainees on Beyoncé’s Black Is King in South Africa, and two trainees on Netflix’s first project in Nigeria.
In 2006 he began working professionally Africa designing concerts in Nigeria. Artists featured were, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Rhianna, Usher, Shakira, John Legend, Snoop Dogg, Chris Brown, Missy, Mary Jay Blige. Christian lit NETFLIX’s first Original African production, QUEEN SONO’ in Johannesburg, South Africa and Netflix’s first original production in Nigeria (unnamed). His professional work in Africa has included the AMVCA Awards, reality shows, and 3 Nollywood films. In 2014 he and others, founded Lights, Camera, Diaspora!, a Hollywood-based social enterprise nonprofit that bridges the gap between the African and African-Diaspora entertainment production industries. Since 2015, LCD! has conducted over 51 technical workshops, masterclasses and job placements in 8 countries in Africa. 2017 he received Africa Diaspora Awards’ Creative Person Of The Year Award. MULTICHOICE, the largest broadcaster in Africa, has partnered with LCD! to do masterclasses in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Zambia. LCD! Recently donated lighting equipment to the Zambian film community facilitated by the Los Angeles-Lusaka Sister City, placed a Nigerian cinematographer on an HBO show shooting in Hollywood as a training, placed trainees on Beyoncé’s Black Is King in South Africa, and two trainees on Netflix’s first project in Nigeria.
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