Chanel Dupree is an award winning Screenwriter and Director based in NYC. Her film “Next Stop” earned her “Best Female Director” and screened in over eleven festivals, both domestic and international. “Next Stop” is currently streaming on The New York Times rated streaming channel, "NoBudge". Chanel has written in several writers’ rooms, including her web series, "Black Retail" that earned her "Best Web Series" & "Best Comedy". Her feature documentary "You Think You Grown? Dismantling Adultification" premiered at the Apollo Theater and walked away with "Best Documentary Feature" and began its school screening tour this year with NYU. A winner of Spec that Scene, a finalist for Women Write Now, finalist of BLACK BOY/GIRL WRITES MEDIA and A fellow of BRIC’s Screenwriters Lab, Chanel’s work can be found in the HuffPost, NPR’s In Black America, ABC’s Here and Now and African Voices magazine.