Founded in 2015, by Ogechi Musa, CEO; M5 Productions is a film production services company based in Los Angeles, California. We produce content for our clients that span a wide range from Feature films, Documentaries, and TV Series to Corporate branding and music videos. We are visual storytellers that articulate your project vision to become reality.
About
0ur mission is simple:
Create artwork that evokes empathy. Our goal is to provide a platform for marginalized stories to educate and inspire our community to unite uplift, and celebrate the global majority, to combat the global oppression.
Increasing representation on TV/film, in turn, should yield more empathy that strengthens our humanity.
Meet the Team
Precious Musa (she/her/hers)
Program Coordinator/StaffEditor
Precious Musa is a first-generation Nigerian american Black girl. She graduated from Smith College with her B.A. in English and Africana Studies with a Poetry Concentration and earned her MFA in Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. Precious’ writing often engages the inner life of the body, fugitivity, and belonging. She participated in the 2020 Tin House Workshop where she worked under Hanif Abdurraqib. Her poems appear in “Tupelo Quarterly,” “West Trestle Review,” “Black Perspectives,” and elsewhere. As a way to begin answering questions around Black grief and joy formed during undergrad, Precious developed, curated, and launched “Listen, Look: A Reconciliatory Journey Through Black Grief and Joy”: a multi-media installation featuring Black St. Louis artists. The installation brought her closer to her love for visual storytelling, and she’s been immersed in that world ever since. Precious currently resides in St. Louis, MO where she’s learning how to commune with her ancestors, speak with them, and language their story.
Lashmi Dowds(she/her/hers)
Creative Intern
Lashmi is a college graduate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Communications and Spanish Dual Degree. She is pursuing a career in Marketing Management with a multimedia corporation. With skills in TV/Film production, marketing, public relations, writing and being bilingual, she aspires to bring a Latinx voice in the entertainment industry. She is also an actress with years of training and credits in student films, including M5’s very own Friction played as “Ashley Melody”. Lashmi looks forward to encouraging other Afro-Latinx creatives to amplify their voices in all aspects of storytelling.
Joy Howard (she/her/hers)
Executive Assistant
Joy is a graduate of Azusa Pacific University, with a BA in Cinematic Arts and a concentration in film studies. With that, her goal is to become an aspiring film critic.
Joy has had the luxurious pleasure of being a part of an APU capstone by the name of Campy Spy Musical, as a 2nd assistant director. Helped out on one capstone previously to that entitled The Nightmare Pill (loading and unloading film equipment). She has also taken film classes that have taught her how to direct, produce, write, cast, film, and edit her own shorts.
Joy is looking forward to develop, grow, and amplify Black voices with M5 Productions.
"An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned,
is to reflect the times."
-Nina Simone
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