Rhea L. Combs has been with the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) since June 2004 where she produced the organization’s 25th Anniversary film retrospective, an event that featured many of the stellar works NBPC has supported and funded over the last quarter-century. In her current position, Ms. Combs is the Director of Prized Pieces International Film and Video Festival, NBPC’s annual film competition that showcases films and programs about human rights and social justice from a uniquely Black perspective.

Ms. Combs has produced programs and film festivals both nationally and internationally, namely at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, the Institute of Contemporary Art (London), Emory University (Atlanta), Spelman College (Atlanta) and Columbia College (Chicago), among others. She has taught courses on Visual Culture, African American Cultural Production, and Third World Cinema and is the recipient of several national awards and honors, including a Rockefeller-Emory University Fellowship in Cultural History. Ms. Combs is currently completing her Ph.D. in Film History and African American Culture. Her dissertation is on the late documentary filmmaker, Marlon Riggs.

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