Mose Mayer

Mose Mayer is a filmmaker born in the Lower 9th but grew up in the City Park area of New Orleans. MAyer was first introduced to filmmaking by finding his mom's old Sony Handycam and meeting Phillip Youmans, working a small role on his film Ivory. There, he fell in love with the process and excitement of it all and started goofing around, shooting stuff with his mother's old Hi8. After that many, PA jobs came Mayers' way and he worked them all. As high school went on, he and Phillip worked on more films together. In his junior year, Phillip began work on his first feature film Burning Cane and Mayer was eager to help out in anyway possible and was grasping everything well. Burning Cane, starring Wendell Pierce (The Wire, Jack Ryan, Tréme, Suits, Clemency) and executive produced by Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild), speaks on the rigid religious convictions that govern the black community in the rural south and the cyclical nature of destructive behavior. He helped Phillip with his most recent video installation titled Won't You Celebrate With Me premiered with Saint Heron at the end of his senior year of high school; the instillation is showcase of black female unity in an alternative future. Phillip stars in Mayers' first short film, Demons Arise, in which Mayer showed his improvement in the field. Mayer even flew out to New York to help with Nairobi, Phillip's latest short, also made with Saint Heron, is about a Harlem-based family of francophone West-African immigrants. Nairobi will premiere on their platform in the Spring of 2019. During his first year at Columbia College Chicago, made gallery, experimental films compiled of footage from Won't You Celebrate With Me and crack-body synonym, another Youmans' film. The two pieces titled "Smile, Smiles, Smiling" and "b blessed" go with music Mayer produced.