Executive Producer of HomeGoing, DAVÓNE TINES is an American bass-baritone heralded for the immense power, fervor, and expressive depth of his voice. Praised by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the most powerful voices of our time,” and by The New York Times as “immensely gifted,” Tines has emerged as a defining artist of his generation, advancing and expanding the field of classical music.
Named a “Next Generation Leader” by TIME magazine, Tines is a path-breaking performer whose work exists at the intersection of many histories, cultures, and aesthetics. His artistry blends opera with spirituals, gospel, and anthems, forging performances that are both formally rigorous and deeply personal. Through this fusion, Tines uses music as a vehicle for storytelling—exploring perseverance, ancestry, and human connection—while reimagining what classical performance can hold and whom it can speak for.
“Homegoing” (2025) is a collaborative musical tribute by filmmaker Julie Dash and operatic bass-baritone Davóne Tines, created in remembrance of the Emanuel Nine. Through voice, image, and ritual, the film honors lives taken during Bible study at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. Tines’s performance becomes an offering of grief and resilience, while Dash’s restrained visual language creates a space for reflection, remembrance, and dignity.
Writer, Director, Co-Producer JULIE DASH (D.G.A), (AMPAS) creates work that moves through film, video, and museum installations as a sustained meditation on social justice, diasporic memory, migration, and the interior lives of Black women. Julie first reshaped the cinematic landscape with Daughters of the Dust, her Sundance Award–winning film (Best Cinematography, 1991), becoming the first African American woman to secure a wide theatrical release for a feature film (1992). In this same connection, Dash was awarded Joseph R. Biden’s President’s 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award for a lifelong commitment to advancing Gullah Geechee traditions and culture. Dash has directed televisions episodes of Queen Sugar, Women of the Movement, Our Kind of People and Reasonable Doubt; her long form narrative dramas include Subway Stories: Tales of the Underground, The Rosa Parks Story, Funny Valentines, Love Song, and Incognito. Dash has several early films on her Criterion Collections channel
Nasreen Alkhateeb is an award winning cinematographer whose work illuminates historically excluded voices. Her ability to motivate audiences is a direct result of approaching each film by normalizing intersectional storytelling.
Her lens has captured the Emmy award series UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS WITH A BLACK MAN, Kamala Harris’ Vice President campaign, the Netflix series SUPREME MODELS: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion, which Nasreen was the recipient of the Telly Award in Cinematography, and the Apple series DEAR… episode with Billy Porter. Nasreen’s first feature, called She Runs the World, premiered at the Tribeca Film festival in 2025, and won best film at DOC LA. Nasreen’s second feature, a Mexican American coming of age film called LA SERENATA, was supported by HBO and GLAAD.
Nasreen lensed the short film SOUL TIE which won the Afro Latino Film Festival, and the short film NIGHT WAKING which won the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival. Recipient of the “Wild Card” awarded by her NASA peers, Nasreen has been a fellow of the American Film Institute Conservatory, a vision mentee of the American Society of Cinematographers, The United States Artists with a grant from The Ford Foundation, The Center for Cultural Power, The Sundance Institute, Women in Film, and Getty Images. Born in Oakland California, raised in Northern Virginia, she graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York with a BFA in Fine Arts. Forbes has described her as “breaking barriers.”
Matteo Marchisano-Adamo is an award-winning filmmaker, composer, and motion picture editor whose work is defined by a rigorous, musically informed approach to visual storytelling. Trained in classical piano under Ferenc Rados at the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Matteo brings a refined sense of timing, tension, and structure to the edit, treating editing as a form of composition.
He has served as motion picture editor for director Julie Dash on multiple projects, including her film for Vogue and HomeGoing, produced by MOCA/The Brick. His additional editing credits include the Telly Award–winning CBC documentary An Improbable Dream.
A director in his own right, Matteo’s personal work explores the synthesis of the human spirit and emerging technology. Born in Flint, Michigan to an immigrant household, he brings a multidisciplinary, multicultural perspective, and an ethic of deep discipline to every collaboration.
Homegoing (2025), created in collaboration with operatic artist Davóne Tines, is a cinematic act of remembrance honoring the Emanuel Nine from Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church.
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