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Shaded Media Group is a full service creative production company, focused on telling stories that all humans can relate to–regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, or creed–while highlighting Black voices in the film and television industry.


Feature Films / Docs / Shorts / Digital & Short Form / Commercials

NYLA COLLECTIVE

NYLA COLLECTIVE

NYLA COLLECTIVE

Cultivate &

Collaborate

The NYLA Collective is a cultivated space where filmmakers can collaborate and support one another as they navigate the film and television industries. The goal of the collective is to pool resources together to tell unique stories, and produce quality projects that all collective members can use to advance their career.

Member Benefits

STOP

Asking.

START

Doing

-Ava Duvernay

Develop.

The NYLA Collective provides a safe space where storytellers can ideate, conceptualize, and develop their story ideas.

Pitch.

Have a project that needs support? Pitch your project to other collective members during monthly meetings. Pitch templates and guidance included!

Collaborate.

Filmmaking is a highly collaborative activity. The collective gives you access to like minded peers, all with the same goal of producing quality projects.

Execute.

Filmmaking can be overwhelming. As a member of the collective, you get access to the resources to help you go from idea to screen.

Projects

Projects

Projects

The New Deal | Episodic | Coming Soon

In an all-Black world where power is the ultimate currency, everyone in Erika is after their share—and then some—but hidden motives, a media conspiracy, and a government takeover threaten to change the face and culture of their nation forever. This project is fiscally sponsored by Film Independent

Mutual Feelings | Short Film | 2022

What starts as a casual night of beers, music and catching up leaves two longtime best friends at a crossroads.

Empty | Short Film | 2019


Two women arrive to pick up their daughter from school only to find that it's empty. Made as part of the Women Weekend Film Challenge

jUnKiE | Short Film | 2019

Feeling low because of her lack of success as a songwriter, a young woman signs up for yoga classes that end up taking a turn for the worse.

A Rose By Any Other Name | Pilot

In an all-Black world where power is the ultimate currency, everyone in Erika is after their share—and then some—but hidden motives, a media conspiracy, and a government takeover threaten to change the face and culture of their nation forever. This project is fiscally sponsored by Film Independent

Purple Butterfly | Feature

When a rigid daughter is unusually re-united with her mentally ill, impassioned, and estranged father, she unexpectedly moves him into her one-bedroom apartment, forcing her to re-build their complicated relationship, while learning more from him than she expected..

Polaroid House | Feature

When a detached, award-winning photographer is asked to advocate for her old block, against a housing development project that threatens to displace current residents, she’s forced to revisit her own time growing up there and comes to terms with lingering internal struggles.

Events

Events

Events

We’ve Officially Launched!

On December 9th, 2022 Shaded Media Group hosted Behind The Shade, a celebratory night for our official launch. Founded in 2018, Shaded Media has been working with dope storytellers and artists to tell unique stories.


The night consisted of:


The New Deal Episodic Teaser | Mutual Feelings Short Film Sneak Peak | The NYLA Collective Intro | Networking Session by Binty's Black Book | Junkie Short Film Premier | Gift Bags and Raffle Prizes

Our Story

Our Story

Our Story

Throughout LaQuin’s career, she’s been fortunate enough to work with some dope Black creatives. Through Shaded Media Group, LaQuin hopes to be a hub where Black clients and creatives are given the freedom to bring their ideas to life.


Founded in 2018, Shaded Media Group began as a solution to what founder, LaQuin Alexander, saw as a diversity problem in the film and television industry. Throughout her 7 years of experience in this industry, she noticed an absence of not only Black-owned production companies, but stages, equipment rental houses, and other common entities. Shaded Media Group wants to change that and empower emerging Black filmmakers to think outside the box.


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Support Our Projects

Shaded Media Group is an independently owned and operated creative studio. All donations and support is greatly appreciated.


Here are ways you can donate:


For all inquiries email:

info@shadedmediagroup.com

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