Shantré Pinkney is a Bay Area filmmaker, writer and photographer with roots in New York and Atlanta. Her work reflects social relationships and characters coming of age through narrative, portrait and documentary styles.
She was awarded the Zellerbach Grant and selected as an Arts Fellow with Asian Improv Arts and a Media Fellow by Kala Arts Institute. Her work has been exhibited in film festivals, galleries and museums including the Pan African Film Festival, Somarts and the historic African American Arts and Culture Complex in Fillmore, San Francisco. Through her work, Shantre partners with people and groups using storytelling through film, photography, literature, and audio narratives as a force for good.
FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS
2025 Fellow, Sankofa Film Institute - Washington, DC
2024 Zellerbach Award Grantee
2024 Media Arts Residency Fellow - Kala Arts Institute, Berkeley, CA
2024 Artist Fellow - Asian Improv aRts, San Francisco, CA
EXHIBITIONS
2025 Black Film As Protest, Black Maria Microcinema, San Francisco, CA
2024 Where the Tree Grows, Kala Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2024 Continuations, Asian Improv Arts, San Francisco, CA
2024 Sweaty, 120710.art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2024 Light Blocks, Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, CA
2022 After Mario (film), Art Color Digital Cinema International, Montreal, Canada
2020 Bayview Black Owners Campaign (video) - Storytelling for Community Self Determination - Divcomm NY
WORKSHOPS/LECTURES/PANELS
2026 Lecturer, A Visual Practice In Storytelling, Ruth Williams Bayview Opera House, San Francisco, CA
2025 Guest Artist, Black Maria Microcinema, San Francisco, CA
2021 Guest Artist, Art Heals All Wounds - Podcast, San Francisco, CA
2020 Guest Artist, SF Urban Film Fest, San Francisco, CA
2020 Guest Lecturer, UpWard Bound, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2019 Digital Media Instructor, Code Tenderloin, San Francisco, CA
2012 Teaching Artist, Storytelling in Photography, Girls 2000 (ages 12-17), San Francisco, CA
RECENT WORK
2024 Videographer/Photographer, HAT Foundation, Oakland, CA
2023 Editor, Beyond Blood, Citizen Film, San Francisco, CA
2023 Video Director, Oakland Public Library Feasibility Study/SFUFF, Oakland, CA
2022 Photographer, Race Forward - GARE Conference, Portland, OR
2022 Photographer, David Brower Center - Art/Act: Local - This Land, Berkeley, CA
2022 Photographer, SF Urban Film Fest (SFUFF)/Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - YBCA 10, San Francisco, CA
2022 Photographer/Videographer/Editor, Impact Media Partners, Oakland, CA
2021 2nd Assistant Photographer, Dana Scruggs Studio - Conde Nast/Vogue
2020 Videographer/Photographer, SFUFF/YBCA - City is Alive, San Francisco, CA