7 Gunn Media LLC is a visionary company that provides innovative and extraordinary multimedia services, which inspires people to pursue their dreams.
BIO:
Okema "Seven" Gunn is an award-winning filmmaker, educator, and writer. She's an innovator, creator, educator, collaborator, and uncommon denominator. Seven is the founder and CEO of 7 Gunn Media. She has been an educator for several years in New York City and the Chicagoland area. She has a Bachelors degree in Psychology and Masters in Secondary Education in Social Studies. Currently, she is a contributing writer for the Chicago Defender, a freelance writer in the Chicago Now Blog Community as "Seven Gunn Says". She works as an educator, film critic, pop culture writer, film producer, and film director.
Okema "Seven" Gunn is an award-winning filmmaker, educator, and writer. She's an innovator, creator, educator, collaborator, and uncommon denominator. Seven is the founder and CEO of 7 Gunn Media. She has been an educator for several years in New York City and the Chicagoland area. She has a Bachelors degree in Psychology and Masters in Secondary Education in Social Studies. Currently, she is a contributing writer for the Chicago Defender, a freelance writer in the Chicago Now Blog Community as "Seven Gunn Says". She works as an educator, film critic, pop culture writer, film producer, and film director.
ABOUT:
Gunn began 7 Gunn Media LLC in 2007 as a way to channel all of her projects and energy into one hub. Seven Gunn wants to help people develop their talents, while creating a wealth of knowledge and resources for her clients. She believes in the responsibility of empowering diverse voices and future generations by inspiring, educating, creating, and facilitating progress. She offers consultation on creative writing, article writing, interviewing techniques, film critique, press releases with media kit creation, curriculum development, film producing, film directing, event hosting and much more....
Gunn began 7 Gunn Media LLC in 2007 as a way to channel all of her projects and energy into one hub. Seven Gunn wants to help people develop their talents, while creating a wealth of knowledge and resources for her clients. She believes in the responsibility of empowering diverse voices and future generations by inspiring, educating, creating, and facilitating progress. She offers consultation on creative writing, article writing, interviewing techniques, film critique, press releases with media kit creation, curriculum development, film producing, film directing, event hosting and much more....
Film Projects from 7 GUNN Media LLC and Okema "Seven" Gunn
WORK:
Recently, Seven Gunn wrote, directed, and produced a short film called, “A Sisterhood of Signatures” (2019) with the help of renowned actress/producer Cynda Williams (from Mo' Betta Blues & One False Move). She co-wrote, co-produced, and directed the short film "Black Girl Vs. Ambiguous" (2020) with her mentee, 13-year-old Maya Hooks. In the Summer of 2020, Seven Gunn wrote, directed, and produced a short called "Black Mama Sable" (2020) through the Digital Storytelling Institute Summer Program (UChicagoArts/Jonathan Logan Center/Community Film Workshop of Chicago). These three films have been making their way around the film festival circuit. Also, her monologue called "Black Teacher's Guide to the Galaxy" was selected to be performed at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago in November 2019 as part of "The Black Monologues".
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Seven Gunn's work and interviews have been seen with: Fox32Chicago-WFLD (on FoxSoulTv), abc7Chicago-WLS, Newsy, Vocalo-WBEZChicago,) WVON-Iheart Intellectual Radio, The Chicago Sun Times, The Chicago Defender, The Chicago Reader, The Daily Herald, The Chicago Crusader, Chicago Now Blog, N'Digo Magapaper, HollywoodChicago.com, ReelChicago.com, Illlinois Institute of Technology (IIT-Chicago Campus) website, Atlanta Daily World, New Pittsburg Courier, The Michigan Chronicle, Chicago Indie Film Critics, and various film festivals around the U.S.