About Barry Sermons
Barry Sermons is a filmmaker, producer, and media creator whose work explores memory, identity, resilience, and the historical connections between Africa and the African diaspora. A non-traditional student at Georgia State University studying Film and Media, Barry combines lived experience, documentary storytelling, and community-centered research to create films and digital media projects that preserve history and amplify overlooked voices.
His creative work focuses on documentary and hybrid storytelling centered on genealogy, African American history, oral traditions, social transformation, and cultural memory. Through film, interviews, archival research, and emerging media, Barry examines how personal stories connect to larger historical narratives across generations and across continents.
Barry is currently developing several documentary and media projects, including All You Have in Life Is Your Name, a film and research project exploring family lineage, migration, identity, and the preservation of ancestral history. His work increasingly connects African American experiences with contemporary Ghanaian and West African cultural narratives through international research and study abroad production.
In addition to filmmaking, Barry has an extensive background in technology, entrepreneurship, live event production, mobile app development, and community advocacy. He is the founder of multiple creative and digital media initiatives, including projects focused on healthcare advocacy, independent filmmaking, and educational collaboration.
As a producer and director, Barry is especially interested in stories that examine:
- resilience and transformation,
- intergenerational memory,
- Black cultural identity,
- migration and diaspora experiences,
- social justice,
- and the relationship between history and personal narrative.
His long-term goal is to continue into graduate study, earn an MFA in Film, and contribute to the next generation of filmmakers through teaching, mentorship, and documentary storytelling.
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