Shola Lynch Director

Shola Lynch is an award-winning American filmmaker. Her latest documentary, Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Women in Hollywood, premiered on Apple TV+ in 2025. She best known for the critically acclaimed Free Angela & All Political Prisoners and Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed. She is honored to train a new generation of storytellers as the Diana King Endowed Professor and the Director of the Documentary Filmmaking Program at Spelman College. From 2013 – 2024, Shola served as the Curator of the Moving Image & Recorded Sound Division of the NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In 2016, Shola became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Currently, Shola is completing a documentary about Reverend Jesse Jackson. She is also working on a passion project about the American sprinter, icon, and still World Record holder, Flo Jo. Shola believes deeply in the value of preserving history and its power in storytelling.