About Janice Duncan
(she/her, they/them) – Los Angeles, CA, USA – Creative Producer, Filmmaker, Independent Researcher. Hosted by The Music Center.
Janice Duncan is an Academy Award-nominated creative producer, filmmaker, and interdisciplinary artist from Detroit, MI. She earned her MFA in Film and TV Production from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and her BS in Film and Media Studies from Johns Hopkins University. Janice was a 2018 Sundance New Frontier Programs fellow, a 2019 MacDowell interdisciplinary fellow, and a 2019 UC Davis Feminist Research Institute Visiting Scholar Program fellow. As the producer of the experimental documentary short A Love Song For Latasha, she received a 2021 Academy Award nomination. Through a collaboration with Netflix, the first Latasha Harlins mural was created in South Central Los Angeles on her childhood playground.
As an artist and independent researcher, Janice is currently working on an audio-based creative archive with The Los Angeles Music Center and The Royal Shakespeare Company that examines the future of culture, technology, and performance in Los Angeles.