Warrington Hudlin

Warrington Hudlin is a organizer and disruptor, content creator and programmer, Metaverse creator and AI speculator.

He is the writer and director of CLINIC ESCORTS, a public service drama about a woman's flight from a state with trigger laws activated when the US Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade.

He is best known as the producer of the landmark African American films, HOUSE PARTY, BOOMERANG, and BEBE KIDS, and television specials, COSMIC SLOP and UNSTOPPABLE. His first films made back in the '70s, BLACK AT YALE and STREET CORNER STORIES, have been restored and archived by Yale University

Hudlin's creative work extends into Virtual Reality (VR) and 360 video with KUNG FU #ME TOO and CINEFEMME CYPHER, both of which address women's rights and achievements. In response to the Covid pandemic, Hudlin created and launched the WeWatchTogether.us Metaverse.

As the founding president of BFF (aka the Black Filmmaker Foundation), Hudlin has been a pioneering community organizer in the black film movement for four decades. He regularly hosts events in Virtual Reality in BFF's Metaverse destinations.

Warrington Hudlin is an advisor to the Hip Hop Museum and the Tribeca Festival. He is the former Vice Chairman of the board of trustees at the Museum of the Moving Image where he was a trustee for over 19 years.

Warrington Hudlin grew up in the notorious city of East St. Louis where he attended an experimental high school affiliated with the legendary artist/activist, Katherine Dunham who helped him get a scholarship to Yale. Hudlin graduated from Yale with special honors as a "Yale Scholar of the House". Years later Hudlin had the great fortune to be mentored by two more legends, Melvin Van Peebles and Harry Belafonte.

Warrington Hudlin's accomplishments are built on the foundation laid by his ancestors, beginning with his great-great-grandfather, Peter Hudlin, who escaped from a slave plantation in Virginia, married an indigenous woman from the Cherokee Nation, and became an agent in the US anti-slavery movement know as the Underground Railroad. Their son, Richard Hudlin (1858-1918) published a newspaper in St. Louis and shortly before is death became one of the first Black persons in the world to start a film production company.