沙塔拉-米歇尔-福特，Shatara Michelle Ford (Writer/Director/Producer) is a black American filmmaker born in rural Arkansas and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. In 2010, she received an MFA in Screenwriting from Royal Holloway, University of London. Shatara's work explores class, power, womanhood, identity, memory, perception and race. Intellectually propelled by the LA Rebellion film movement and stylistically influenced by Neo-Classical directors; her films feature marginalized characters with rich internal lives that defy dominant stereotypes. She is a 2014-2015 Film Independent Project Involve Fellow and her script, QUEEN ELIZABETH was featured on the 2017 Black List. TEST PATTERN is her debut feature.