Fitzgerald Junior

Fitzgerald Junior is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist working across narrative, documentary, music, painting and collage. With a gentle gaze his works are an invocation, a call to imagine softness and expansive expressions that disrupt reductive notions of Black masculinity. Fitzgerald’s films are cloaking devices, reparative gestures for the rigid socialization that renders Black men and boys as hyper-sexual, violent and undeserving of safety and second chances.

Fitzgerald Junior is a programmer with Hyphen Film Center, whose mission is to engage, enrich, and educate diverse audiences through innovative cinematic arts exhibition while reducing social barriers to participation. His empathic space-making abilities have produced once in a lifetime experiences at the intersection of cinema exhibition and community-building. Hyphen Film Center proudly serves the city of Louisville, Kentucky, and is currently in its third season of programming.

Fitzgerald Junior is a disabled veteran with combat service in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a proud member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.