Shellée M. Haynesworth is an Emmy and Telly Award-winning director, producer, storyteller, and writer. She is the visionary behind Indigo Creative Works—a boutique multimedia content studio—she is acclaimed for crafting visually compelling narratives that explore the intersections of arts, culture, Black and LGBTQ history, racial equity, and social justice. Her work inspires resilience and amplifies historically marginalized voices.
Shellée has collaborated with leading media outlets and institutions, including Black Entertainment Television (BET), PBS, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Firelight Media, the Gates Foundation, and Meta/Facebook. Her recent directing and producing credits include Daufuskie Island and Beyond!, a 2023 Silver Telly Award-winning project celebrating the enduring spirit of the Gullah Geechee community in Coastal Carolina; Fierceness Served! The ENIKAlley Coffeehouse, a documentary honoring a pivotal Black LGBTQ cultural space in Washington, DC, and CAMILLE A. BROWN: GIANT STEPS (NAACP Image Awards nominee), a portrait of the prolific choreographer and director Camille A. Brown, whose bold, ancestral-rooted work explores Black identity through Diasporic dance. CAMILLE A. BROWN: GIANT STEPS is part of Firelight Media and PBS American Masters’ In the Making Season 3 series, premiering across PBS platforms in Spring 2025.
Her films have been featured at prestigious festivals, including DOC NYC, Filmfest DC, BlackStar Film Festival, and DC/DOX, among others.