Randall Dottin directs both fiction and non-fiction films. His work focuses on how resistance, history and memory serve as either aids or obstacles in the creation of Black identity throughout the diaspora. He received his BA from Dartmouth and his MFA from the Columbia University Graduate Film Division. His thesis film A-ALIKE was licensed for a two-year broadcast run by HBO and won numerous awards including the Gold Medal at the 2004 Student Academy Awards. His second short LIFTED was sponsored by Fox Searchlight’s program for emerging directors – the Fox Searchlab.
In 2009, INDIEWire named Randall one of the “Ten Exciting New Voices in Black Cinema.” In July 2015, Lifted premiered on CBS as part of a collection of short films. Randall recently wrote and directed FEVAH, a short film starring Russell Hornsby (The Hate U Give, Fences) and LaRoyce Hawkins (Chicago PD). His documentary series THE HOUSE I NEVER KNEW received a grant from the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund.
Recently, Dottin co-wrote, co-directed and produced MINE, an animated series whose pilot premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, won the award for Best Animated Film at the 2022 Denton Black Film Festival as well as the award for Best Web Series at the 2022 American Black Film Festival. Dottin is Chair of the Screenwriting Department at New York Film Academy’s New York City campus where his former students have won screenwriting awards, film festivals and have recently began careers as staff writers and producers on American, South African and European television shows.
An episode of Randall’s animated web series Mine is an official selection of this year’s Winter Film Awards.
