Capella Fahoome
Capella Fahoome is committed to the relational experience of filmmaking. She has produced independent films for twenty years, with a concentration on enhancing collaborative environments through relationships built on trust, empathy, and mutuality. Capella's experience and education confirms that optimizing these elements of production not only increases creativity and individual well-being, but the overall success of the final project. Capella is committed to developing and coaching production leaders and filmmakers.
Previous films include Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, a feature length documentary about the 80s band, Journey, and their new lead singer, Arnel Pineda. Don’t’ Stop Believin’ premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and made an international premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival. The film was part of the American Film Showcase, a joint program of the Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs and University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. It was released in theaters and broadcasted on POV/Independent Lens on PBS, NetFlix and Amazon Prime. It is currently in development for a scripted feature.
A Bunch of Amateurs (2022), supported by IFP, Catapult Film Fund, and BFI, premiered at Sheffield DocFest winning the Audience Award. I'M FINE (Thanks for Asking) is a feature narrative that premiered winning Special Jury Recognition at SXSW 2021 and the Audience Award at the Florida International Film Festival and is currently broadcasting domestically on BETher. Balloon Man (2020) documents the life of the first African-American master hot air balloon pilot; the film featured at International Du Film Panafricain De Cannes, WorldFest Houston, and won Film of the Year at the Rhode Island Black Film Festival.
Capella produced Voices of the Sea (2018), an intimate portrait of family life in a small fishing village on the southern coast of Cuba; the film was featured at the True/False Film Festival, the San Francisco Doc Festival, NYC Human Rights Watch Film Festival, and was broadcasted on POV/PBS. In 2017 Capella Executive Produced Motherland, earning a Sundance Special Jury Award for Commanding Vision; it was nominated for a Spirit Award and selected for the 47th Berlinale Forum.
Capella grew up in Detroit and attended Detroit Public Schools; she graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Psychology and received her Master of Applied Positive Psychology and Master of Philosophy in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania.