Biography

Augusta Palmer is a filmmaker, scholar and hoarder of ancient mixtapes. Her award-winning feature documentary, The Hand of Fatima, was described as “a combination of personal history and glorious music that is deeply compelling” by New York Magazine. Her fiction short, “A is for Aye”, screened at festivals from New York to New Zealand, and inspired a series of workshops at the New York Public Library. Her second documentary feature, The Blues Society, won best documentary at the Oxford Fill Festival and the audience Award for music film at Indie Memphis. Her fiction short "Order My Steps" has screened at festivals from Coney Island to Rwanda. Palmer's work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the New York State Council on the Arts. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York.