Chelsi Bullard is a Memphis-born and Brooklyn-based filmmaker with an unwavering desire to restore beauty, well-being and complexity in stories about Black folx and other minoritized groups.

She edited the feature documentary THE RIGHT TO READ (Santa Barbara, 2023 and SXSW EDU, 2023) with director Jenny Mackenzie and executive producer LeVar Burton. She also recently co-edited LOCKED OUT (dirs. Kate Davis and Luchina Fisher) which was named ‘Best Documentary Feature’ at American Black Film Festival, 2023 and screened opening night at Double Exposure Film Festival, 2023.

Producing credits include the feature documentary COMING AROUND (dir. Sandra Itäinen) which had its US Premiere at Frameline, 2023 and won the ‘Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature’ at NewFest, 2023.

Directing credits include the short documentaries ON THE LEDGE (DOC NYC, 2016) and HIDDEN WISDOM (Socially Relevant Film Festival, 2016). Chelsi is a 2023 Big Sky Pitch participant and a 2022-2023 Brown Girls Doc Mafia Black Director’s Fellow. Her work has been supported by Chicken & Egg Pictures, NYSCA, NYC Women’s Fund and others. Chelsi is an alum of the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio and the DocSalon Toolbox Programme at the European Film Market (EFM) at Berlinale. She is currently working on her feature directorial debut, UNFILTERED, for which she will pitch at Hot Docs Forum 2024.