HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT tells the unsung and unseen story of Black queer presence in the music industry through the stories of popular and lesser-known artists who shaped the music and culture we enjoy today.
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT brings to life the stories of Black queer performers who have shaped our music and culture and influenced mainstream artists like David Bowie, Prince, the Rolling Stones, Lady Gaga, Beyonce and Harry Styles. Moving between archival footage, interviews with artists and scholars, and verite footage of emerging Black queer artists navigating the industry today, and told against the backdrop of the social movements over the last two centuries, the feature documentary will show for perhaps the first time how Black queer artists were central to the development of nearly every genre of music, from gospel to rock, disco to pop, and house to hip-hop. Punctuating the film will be the electric performances and images of Black queer performers from the 1800s to the present.
LUCHINA FISHER (she/her) is an Emmy Award-winning director, producer and writer whose work is at the intersection of race, gender and identity. Her latest film, the short documentary THE DADS, about five fathers of trans kids bonding on a weekend fishing trip, won the 2024 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Program and received GLAAD’s Special Recognition Award. The film was executive produced by Dwyane Wade and acquired by Netflix. Her feature directorial debut MAMA GLORIA, about a Black transgender elder activist, was a 2022 GLAAD Media Award nominee and broadcast on PBS. She is also the director of the award-winning short documentary TEAM DREAM, executive produced by Queen Latifah, and co-director of the award-winning feature documentary LOCKED OUT, about the barriers to Black homeownership. Her new project about the unsung history of Black queer presence in music was the winner of the 2023 PitchBLACK Film Forum. Fisher, who started her career as a journalist, is also the director of two scripted short films and has written and produced several nationally broadcast documentaries. The founder of Little Light Productions, she also teaches documentary filmmaking at Yale University.
Black Public Media's PitchBlack Film Forum 2023 - Winner
Firelight Media's William Greaves Production Grant 2024 - Grantee
Producer - Yvonne Welbon
Cast - Allison Russell
