Avril Speaks is an award-winning Producer, Director and Showrunner based in Los Angeles. She has produced several award-winning films including Jinn, Dotty & Soul, and the South African film African America, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, four African Movie Academy Awards and streamed on Netflix. Most recently, Avril was the Showrunner for the docuseries Uprooted which is available on Max and was an Executive Producer for Files of the Unexplained, coming soon to Netflix. Avril has been a Sundance Momentum Fellow, a recipient of the Dear Producer Award, and is also a co-founding member of Distribution Advocates.