Helmed by Wi-Moto Nyoka, Dusky Projects produces genre projects, events, and workshops in audio, immersive theater, and film for adult and young adult audiences. The work focuses on inclusive storytelling and equity through the production and celebration of BIPOC artists.
Audio Works
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Ignyte Award Winner for Best Fiction Podcast, Black Women Are Scary produces short stories by BIPOC authors in horror and its subgenres.
Special thanks to: The Velocity Fund administered by Philadelphia Contemporary with generous funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Philadelphia Independent Media Fund administered by Scribe Video Center with funds provided by the Independence Public Media Foundation and the Wyncote Foundation. |
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Dusky Projects is proud to have been a part of the audio production for the incredible anthology Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, where writers from across the globe engage their imaginations in discovering intersectional worlds of generational healing and community-based solutions. The anthology brings new perspectives to the vital genre of climate fiction, with short stories that offer visions of abundance, adaptation, reform, and hope.
Click here to read and listen to Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors and Imagine 2200 Editors' Picks 2023 |
Immersive Theater
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Told from the perspective of the Gun and the Bullet, Funeral for the Death Machines is a poetic goodbye letter told through music, arguments, and celebration. Rooted in Black American death rituals, the work is a rehearsal for us to lay down our weapons, if only for one night.
Commissioned for the Future Without Guns exhibition BIPOC New Works Fellow, Cannonball Festival 2024 TCNJ Future Without Guns exhibition, 2025 |
Film
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In a cutthroat rental market two women fight for their lives and their Affordable Housing.
Official Selection 2026: Winter Film Festival NYC |
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And Then I Wake Up is an immersive project exploring how nightmares can move us to action.
Ingredients: Audio - featured on the podcast Black Women Are Scary Art - In the Umbra art exhibition at Chimera Gallery Film - premiered at the Exponential Theater Festival Prose - published in Latin American Stories from Flame Tree Publishing. |
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Wham is the story of Aquilah and friends who are the best students at MLK Middle School until their classmates break out into mysterious rage episodes. Our heroes must break the rules to find out the truth, save their school, and their futures.
The film is part of the larger educational project Cold Sweat which uses scary stories to facilitate discussions with young audiences about what scares us and how to face the monsters together. Official Selections 2019-21: MECCAcon International Film Festival, Official Latino Short Film Festival, Kwanzaa Film Festival, AfroComicCon Film Festival Nominations: Best Webisode, Outstanding Performance By An Ensemble Cast, Out of The World Award (horror, sci-fi & fantasy) |