For the most part now, I produce narrative films. I was writing plays and I really got into screenplay writing, which then led into me really loving film and being a producer in film.
And I started acting professionally when I was in 8th grade. As a returning Lede New Orleans Senior Fellow, Troy is interested in digging deeper into documentary journalism. Troy served as a Lede New Orleans reporting fellow in last spring, documenting a local educator and actor in COVID-19 quarantine as well as her experience protesting racial injustice and police brutality last summer. She’s also an associate producer for TuckerGurl, a local production company founded by Angela Tucker and Iyesatu Chari focused on telling compelling stories about underrepresented communities. In addition to writing her own screenplays, Troy produces narrative features, documentary works and web series with Girls In Color, a multimedia production company she co-founded. It’s not only about getting more Black, Latinx and Asian faces in films documentarians and filmmakers also need to push back against typecasting and diversify the types of stories that center people of color, she said. Troy, 26, is determined to change the way we tell stories about non-white people and characters on screen.
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“I just love the full process of creating a form of visual art,” Troy said.
Troy switched her concentration at UNO from theater to film later that year and months later published her first self-directed work: a short documentary about artist John Isiah Walton for ViaNolaVie. But she discovered her love for working behind the camera in 2016 after spending a month studying film in Montpellier, France. Troy, a New Orleans native and University of New Orleans graduate, was in 8th grade when she started auditioning for acting roles on TV and in film. Nikka Troy has always been at home around the camera. Nikka Troy, a Lede New Orleans Spring 2021 Senior Fellow.
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