Princess A Hairston

Princess is a director, producer, cinematographer, and emmy-nominated editor based in New York City. rincess has produced and directed films such as BREAKING THE NEWS a feature-length documentary that is currently distributed on PBS. Princess also produced and edited LADIES FIRST: a story of Women in Hip Hop on Netflix. She is an editor for several films such as the Visions Audience Award Winning documentary Songs from the Hole which premiered at SXSW 2024, This World Is Not My Own which premiered at SXSW 2023, the highly ranked Amazon doc series LulaRich, Pier Kids, FRESH DRESSED, an official 2015 Sundance Film Festival selection and the Emmy-nominated series Capture with Mark Seliger. In 2020, she produced a digital campaign for “GET OUT THE VOTE” for Black Lives Matter. Princess was selected as one of 25 filmmaker nominees for the 2020 Lynn Shelton Of A Certain Age grant. She is a 2018 recipient of the Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship and a 2018 Winner of the NYTVF WEtv Producer Pitch which led to a development deal. Her work has been recognized with nominations and awards from the Emmys, The Webbys, and many film festivals.