Toni Cunningham

Toni is an independent filmmaker, a 2018 Kresge Arts in Detroit fellow, and the founder of Splash of Tonic Media LLC. Her first film Good Grief premiered in the Detroit Voices competition of Cinetopia Film Festival in 2019. Since then, Toni has written, produced, and directed films in multiple formats and is currently developing a pilot and feature film. She recently produced the short film T-Minus which held its premiere at the Oscar-qualifying Cleveland International Film Festival. She is also a Redford Center Environmental Documentary Grantee for her work on the feature-length documentary Sacrifice Zones: The 48217, as well as a Black Public Media grantee for her work as writer/co-director/producer of the short narrative film Well.