I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist period. Traditional models of making and consuming art are breaking down and being rebuilt. I find that to be incredibly exciting as a filmmaker and film marketer.

For far too long, independent voices have been relegated to places where these ideas are not seen on a mass level.

I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

It was easy for me to show the films to the studio and the network and say, "This is who I'm hiring."

I think there are pieces of the film [Age Of Trump] that are even more emotionally resonant and more vital to talk about than ever.

A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who's edited everything I've ever made from the very, very first documentaries; the very, very first films I made were docs, so we learned the form together.