We will co-host a screening of the unique documentary and animation film This World is Not My Own, which tells the life story of the self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe. Stay afterwards for a panel discussion and Q + A with the filmmakers and to learn more about works on view by other self-taught artists at MMA.
This screening of This World is Not My Own is part of South Arts’ Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers.
Schedule of Events
About the Panelists
Ruchi Mital is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, and writer with a social justice background. She is the Foundress of Solani Media, whose first co-production, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow (dir Martina Radwan) was an official selection at DOCNYC 2023.
In 2014, Ruchi produced We Could Be King, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Sports Documentary. Her subsequent films Sky Ladder: The Art Of Cai Guo-Qiang (2016), and This is Personal (2019) premiered at Sundance. For HBO, she produced the Emmy-nominated series, The Case Against Adnan Syed. In 2021, she produced The Me You Can’t See for Apple TV+ and in 2023 the emmy-nominated Encounters for Netflix. This World is Not My Own, a hybrid documentary about self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe that Ruchi produced and co-wrote premiered at SXSW in 2023 and will air on PBS in Spring 2025.
In 2020, Ruchi was selected as one of DOCNYC’s 40 Under 40 list of emerging non-fiction talents. She has served as a filmmaking mentor through the 2021 Sundance Producer’s Intensive and 2022 DOCNYC Storytelling Incubator and served as a juror for DOCNYC and Reel Sisters of the African Diaspora film festival.
Chase Quinn is recognized by Garden & Gun magazine as one of the art world’s rising vanguards, Chase serves as MMA’s Creative Director and Curator of Special Projects, overseeing education and curatorial departments to foster inclusive storytelling and innovative programming. Previously, at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, he led bold initiatives, including a diversity-focused internship and the landmark exhibition Something Terrible May Happen, which recontextualized Charleston’s art history with support from institutions like Harvard Art Museums and the Musée d’Orsay.
In partnership with the Mississippi Film Society, Mississippi Museum of Art
