Karen Marks

Karen Marks is an independent filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY originally from Jamaica. She recently directed and produced  a documentary short film for Al Jazeera Media Network, about an African American family in Philadelphia reuniting after 40 years of incarceration. It will be broadcast and streamed in 100 countries in 2024.She is currently completing her documentary feature film GAAMAA, which follows a Jamaican maroon woman who is a modern day shaman, on a spiritual journey as she approaches her sixtieth year. Previously, she was director, producer and co-editor of documentary feature film, “The Price of Memory” (2014), which explores the legacy of slavery in Jamaica and Britain. It follows a group of Rastafari in Jamaica who sued Queen Elizabeth II of Britain for slavery reparations.