One Drop of Love is the feature film of a multimedia solo performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni.

Written and produced by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, this extraordinary one-woman show incorporates filmed images, photographs and animation to tell the story of how the notion of ‘race’ came to be in the United States and how it affects our most intimate relationships. A moving memoir, One Drop takes audiences from the 1700s to the present, to cities all over the U.S. and to West and ...East Africa, where the narrator and her family spent time in search of their ‘racial’ roots.

The ultimate goal of the show is to encourage everyone to discuss ‘race’ and racism openly and critically.

ROB TATE (Executive Producer / Director / Editor) has won the Emmy, Cine Golden Eagle, James Beard, and the IDA (International Documentary Association) awards for his various projects, including the PBS international documentary series, GOURMET'S DIARY OF A FOODIE and the Sundance Channel documentary series, ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL, which Time Magazine hailed as one of the Top Ten TV series of 2008.

Rob also co-produced, shot and edited the independent feature fashion industry documentary, ELEVEN MINUTES, released by Regent Pictures, which Variety called a “skillfully crafted, beautifully shot and edited pic.” He is currently an EP of the PBS series, MOVEABLE FEAST, and the Australian food series, THE PALEO WAY WITH PETE EVANS. THE MAGIC PILL is Rob’s second feature documentary.

Vibeke Sorensen is an artist, composer, and professor working in digital multimedia and animation, stereography, interactive architectural installation, and networked visual music performance. Her work in experimental new media spans more than four decades and has been published and exhibited worldwide, including in books, galleries, museums, conferences, performances, film festivals, on cable and broadcast television, and the internet.

Since 1980, she taught and developed programs in media art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Art Center College of Design, California Institute of the Arts, and Princeton University. From 1984-94, she was Founding Director of the Computer Animation Laboratory in the School of Film/Video at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and from 1994-2005 she was Professor and Founding Chair of the Division of Animation and Digital Arts (DADA) in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California (USC). Since 2009, she has been Professor and Chair of the School of Art, Design and Media (ADM) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.

Vibeke Sorensen has a long history of interdisciplinary collaborations, art-science and art-engineering interactions, including the development of new media technologies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Princeton University, the University of Southern California, the University of California San Diego / San Diego Supercomputer Center, the Neurosciences Institute of La Jolla, and the California Institute of Technology. Her research and creative work has been supported by USC, NTU, the New York State Council on the Arts, the US National Science Foundation, and Intel Corporation, among others. She is a 2001 Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in Film/Video/Multimedia. In 2007 she was the Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Art Gallery: Global Eyes.

Her recent work “Illuminations” (2013) is a large scale illuminated folding screen, an interactive visual-music installation incorporating plant biofeedback, ubiquitous computing, and electro-acoustic music that she composed. A stereoscopic version was exhibited at Beyond 3D in 2013. “Vishwaroop” (2014) is a 4K generative dome animation with music by sitar virtuoso Kartik Seshadri, and “Mood of the Planet” (2015) is a kinetic light-sound sculpture incorporating global, real-time big data, Twitter, and music composed by Sorensen. Her most recent animated work, “Mayur” (2015), with music by Kartik Seshadri, is a 4K (3840 x 2160) animation informed by Asian textiles, symbols, and cosmologies. 

Maisha R. Carter is an actor, writer, director and producer from Chicago.

She is the co-founder of a nonprofit organization, The Anointed Harvesters NFP (AH), whose mission is to use the arts to inspire, empower and uplift the communities of the world through creative workshops, inspirational plays, web series and films. Since 1997, she has worked as an independent playwright, director and producer of original productions through AH, with her first full-length play, “Relation...s”, being produced in 2000. In 2007, AH plunged into producing films, the first being “Of Boys and Men”, a dramatic feature starring Chicago bred actor/producer Robert Townsend, Oscar nominee Angela Bassett and Victoria Rowell. The film was released on DVD in January 2011 by Warner Brothers.

Carter has also lent her skills to other filmmakers and creatives on various projects, including the feature film “Black Coffee” starring Darrin Dewitt Henson and Gabrielle Dennis, for which she was an Executive Producer.

Maisha’s most recent creative work includes “The Falls”, a web series based on her stageplay by the same name, the short film “On the Verge of Motion” and the original stageplay, “The Triplet Threat” which premiered in Chicago in December 2016.

She has completed writing her first feature length screenplay entitled “trapped”, with plans to go into pre-production in 2017.

In addition to her work with The Anointed Harvesters, Maisha has a Bachelor’s of Science degree in News-Editorial Journalism from the University of North Texas and provides freelance writing, editing and consulting services for other writers, various companies and organizations. 
(On The Verge of Motion)