Randall I. Dottin

Randall Dottin received his BA from Dartmouth and his MFA from the Columbia University Graduate Film Division. His thesis film A-ALIKE was licensed for a two-year broadcast run by HBO and won numerous awards including the Gold Medal at the 2004 Student Academy Awards and a Director’s Guild of America Award for Best African American Student Filmmaker . His second short LIFTED was sponsored by Fox Searchlight’s program for emerging directors – the Fox Searchlab. In 2009, INDIEWire named Randall one of the “Ten Exciting New Voices in Black Cinema.”

In July 2015, Lifted premiered on CBS as part of a collection of short films. Randall recently wrote and directed FEVAH, a short film starring Russell Hornsby (The Hate U Give, Fences) and LaRoyce Hawkins (Chicago PD). His documentary series THE HOUSE I NEVER KNEW is currently in production and explores how six families in Chicago, Houston and Boston fight against becoming casualties of housing segregation. The series recently received a grant from the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund. Recently, Dottin co-wrote, co-directed and produced MINE, an animated series whose pilot recently premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.

Dottin is Chair of the Screenwriting Department at New York Film Academy’s New York City campus where his former students have won screenwriting awards, film festivals and have recently began careers as staff writers and producers on American, South African and European television shows.