Cyrille Phipps is a media educator and filmmaker in New York City. She has over twenty years of production experience, working on music videos, short films, documentaries, webisodes and transmedia projects. As a documentary filmmaker, she has collaborated on projects that have aired on PBS, TNT and the BBC on important cultural figures such as Muhammad Ali, Muma Abu Jamal and Malcolm X. She was the co-founder of Black Planet Productions, which produced the award winning grassroots series Not Channel Zero- the revolution, televised. As a member of this collective, she co-produced a number of critically acclaimed documentaries including, “Black Womyn, Sexual Politics and the Revolution.” and ”Our House: Gays and Lesbians in the Hood.” In the Spring of 2023, the work of Not Channel Zero was featured in the MoMA exhibit, Signals: How Video Transformed the World. The grassroots series she co-created, Not Chanel Zero, was featured along with the work of amazing video artists, media activists and other content that questioned the promise of video. She also produced and directed a number of documentaries and community-oriented programs dealing with issues such as AIDS, homophobia, sexism and racism. In 2007, she produced and directed the award winning short documentary, “Seen, But Not Heard” examining issues around black women and HIV.
As the Senior Editor of Broadband Video at TV Land Digital, she oversaw all post-production for web-broadcast. Most recently, she has worked as a producer, cameraperson and video editor for channels and new media outlets such as Interactive One, a division of TV One, HITN and Sesame Workshop.
As an educator, Cyrille served as an Adjunct Professor at City College, L.I.U., Essex County College and John Jay College as well as Marymount Manhattan College. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in Media Studies.