Project WOW: Men On The Down Low is an award winning documentary, Executive Produced & Directed Lisa Durden, about men who are masquerading as heterosexuals but are secretly sleeping with men, possibly putting their wives and girlfriends at risk for HIV/AIDs. It aired on BET J's Black Stories series in short Form during World AIDS Day, 2009.
Lisa produced an AfroPoP live stream and Q&A with AFROPUNK Presents The Triptych director of photography Shawn Peters, along with producers Jocelyn Cooper and Matthew Morgan. It was a live, online web event where they discussed the film series, and the state of Black art today. This event was a partnership with Imagenation (http://imagenation.us/) @ RAWSPACE in Harlem (2031 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. - 7th Ave. Between 121st and 122nd)!!
Lisa Durden was the Production Manager for the critically acclaimed one man show, MANish Boy, starring comedian Ralph Harris, from Dream Girls, BET's Comic View, host of TvOne's, My Momma Throws Down and Show Time At The Apollo. MANish BOY, is comprised of characters that Ralph has developed on stages throughout the world. This hysterical one-man show celebrates moving memories, while taking you on a journey to the unknown. The story unfolds when he finds out that he may be a father, and he goes home to take a DNA test. It opened to rave reviews at The New York International Fringe Festival August 2014.
As the Broadcast Manager of The National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), Lisa produces the "producer chats" for AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, as a series, celebrates the cultural and historical growth that has occurred in the last generation using films tailored to a world audience from insightful, artful and often unique local perspectives. These films are always carefully selected to portray a more balanced view of Africa than you’ll get on the nightly news and to provide fuel for what must be a global conversation on the present day realities and contemporary lifestyles of Africans, both on the continent and in the Diaspora.
