Safiyah Chiniere

WOMEN IN FILM  .

Safiyah Chiniere  from Virginia Beach, Virginia, where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. Graduating High School, she  went to New York City and took up Fashion as a Major in college. While there, she realized fashion wasn’t something she loved, at the age of 19 she worked at Mc Donald's Overnight, Saving up money to purchase her first Camera. She started off doing photography which led her into doing Music Videos. After awhile, she was inspired to create stories with meaning. Studying Television shows to anything with a great story behind it, she watched it and learned from it. Even though, she didn’t go to school for Filmmaking, she was able to learn from Youtube tutorials and create her first web-series which was filmed in Paterson, New jersey and noticed around the city. “BROTHERZ, was a  about three individuals who of which two are members of a gang and one who isn’t, but associates himself with the people that are. (Mookie, Jeremiah and Jose) are trying to accomplish something great in their life, but each for a different purpose. Safiyah is 26 and lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.