FILM
Talking Walls
(USA, 2025, 27 min)Multiple voices reflect on the language, sounds, touch, history and choice of public and private, Black and queer spaces. Talking Walls moves through the Black queer spaces of Detroit, Philadelphia, and New York City, tracing the architecture of queer resistance and joy. Through voice and archival fragments, the film honours the remnants of homes and hidden places where touch, language, and memory hold defiant histories of survival and belonging. To request a screener or if interested in hosting a community screening, please reach out to studio@williammarcellus.comSCREENINGS
DOXA Documentary Festival 2025
May 3, 2025 | Vancouver, BC, Canada
Nominated for Best Short Film
AUSTIN ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
May 17, 2025 | Austin, TX
As part of Color Congress Resistance & Joy Screening Tour
ATLAS OF BLACKNESS
June 14, 2025 | Minneapolis, MN
As part of Color Congress Resistance & Joy Screening Tour
HYPHEN FILM CENTER
June 14, 2025 | Louisville, KY
As part of Color Congress Resistance & Joy Screening Tour
LEVEL GROUND COLLECTIVE
June 25, 2025 | Los Angeles, CA
As part of Color Congress Resistance & Joy Screening Tour
DIVERSE FILMMAKERS ALLIANCE
June 25, 2025 | Virtual
As part of Color Congress Resistance & Joy Screening Tour
BRONX INDEPENDENT CINEMA CENTER
June 26, 2025 | Bronx, NY
As part of Color Congress Resistance & Joy Screening Tour
Brooklyn Pride Center and Third World News
June 27, 2025 | Brooklyn, NY
BlackStar Film Festival
TBD | Philadelphia, PA
TEAM
Marcellus
Director, Producer, Editor
Marcellus is an artist, filmmaker, media programmer and educator. His work focuses on archival and material notions of Blackness and queerness. Since 2019, Marcellus has been collecting oral histories as part of an ongoing archival project, Talking Walls. In 2018, he created "The 48203 Dance Show", a community-based dance show project centered around the archive of WGPR-TV33, located in Detroit, Michigan. He continues to be rooted within participatory community media, working with Scribe Video Center, Detroit Sound Conservancy, and as a film professor at Temple University. He received his MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2017. Originally from the suburbs of Baltimore, Marcellus currently resides in Philadelphia.Raishad Momar
Co-Producer, Director of Photography
Raishad Momar is an Emmy award winning documentary cinematographer and video editor with a specialty in rendering intimate, honest stories on screen.
As a Black and queer filmmaker, Raishad cares deeply about how communities see themselves reflected on screen. His work is an attempt at archiving the complexity and beauty of those intersections.
Raishad got his chops working as a staff videographer for The Philadelphia Inquirer, while there, Raishad won six (6) regional Emmy awards as a part of The Inquirer’s small video team. In 2019, he co-directed, filmed, and edited “Legendary: "30 Years of Philly Ballroom,” which screened at the 2020 BlackStar Film Festival and won the festival’s Shine Award. In 2021, his film, Sisters of the Soil, won the Best Local Short Award at the 2021 Philadelphia Film Festival. Most recently, Raishad won his sixth Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for Wildest Dreams, a project about Black cultural inheritance. His films have also screened at the San Francisco Doc Fest and QFlix, Philadelphia’s premier LGBTQ film festival. Raishad has an M.S. in Journalism from the Columbia School of Journalism and a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California.Asadullah Saed
Co-Producer
Asadullah Muhammad was born and raised in New York City and has over 15 years of experience in education and community development with a primary focus on the advancement of court-involved and incarcerated youth, securing safe housing for LGBTQ youth, and enhancing public school education in Atlanta, Detroit, New Orleans and New York. Most recently, Asadullah worked for United Way for Southeastern Michigan as a Pathway Coach building college and career pathways in Detroit public high schools. He trained school leaders, teachers, school counselors and college advisors in aligning school environments and curriculum with industry-valued, career opportunities for students.
While in Detroit, Asadullah served on the Board of Directors for the Ruth Ellis Center. The center is the only organization in the country that has a residential program for LGBTQ youth in the foster care and juvenile justice system, and is mission-specific to queer youth experiencing homelessness. Asadullah graduated from Hampton University with a degree in business management and information systems. In 2014, he completed the Public Leaders Fellowship with Leadership for Educational Equity. Asadullah is currently the Vice President of Impact & Engagement Strategy at American Documentary | POV, a long-running PBS series showcasing independent nonfiction films.