Carla LynDale Bishop is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor in the Sidney Poitier New American Film School at Arizona State University. Her work explores ways that media can be used to bring communities together and promote social change. She blends traditional documentary with immersive media such as augmented reality and 360 video to tell place-based counter-narratives of historically black communities. She produced the Augmented reality documentary, Freedman Town 2.0, which utilizes image-based and location-based points in order to celebrate the life and history of black communities in Denton, Texas. Currently she is producing an immersive geo-locative media project titled, “Mapping Blackness”. This digital mapping platform chronicles historically black communities that are often left off of maps utilizing geotagging, Augmented Reality, 360 video, data visualization and traditional documentary storytelling. “Mapping Blackness” is a continuation of previous projects and aims to put more black communities on the map using ArcGIS technologies and co-creation methodologies between community members, technologists, students, and filmmakers. Carla is the inaugural recipient of the MIT and Black Public Media Fellowship, hosted by MIT Open Documentary Lab. She received her BA in Cinema Studies from the University of Chicago and her MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University in Philadelphia. In 2013, she founded, Focused.Arts.Media.Education., an organization that trains youth how to make media that matters in their communities through in-school residencies, summer workshops and community-wide documentary projects.