South Central Los Angeles
Writer · Director · Producer
Grounded realism. Poetic cinema.
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Selected Work
Post-Production
After a string of failed films leaves him on the brink of being blacklisted, a filmmaker returns to his childhood home in the mountains in search of the inspiration for what may be his final project.
Post-Production
In housing projects that cage their youth, 12-year-old Musa steps into the unforgiving night chasing the same legacy that claimed his brother.
In Development
After falling wayside in the foster care system, filmmaker Nagi Moore reconnects with his family after 19 years apart and travels to Pensacola, Florida, in search of his lineage. There, he discovers Ifá and a bloodline of Yoruba descendants fighting to survive cultural erasure and systemic abandonment.
Active Festival Circuit
A priest's crisis. A sinner's fate. A deadly reckoning.
Selected festival recognition includes Cannes Film Week, IndieX Film Fest, Ardennes International Film Festival, Golden State Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival, Marina del Rey Film Festival, Burbank International Film Festival, and more.
I'm a visionary who tells stories grounded in realism. I'm the voice for those who've been cast to the wayside, giving language to the truths the world tried to bury.
About
Writer · Director · Producer
Nagi Moore is an award-winning Black filmmaker, writer, director, and producer from South Central Los Angeles, recognized for emotionally grounded storytelling and a poetic visual style. His work explores identity, community, grief, family, survival, Black life, and the systems that shape young people before they have the language to understand them. Drawing from lived experience and his academic background in Sociology, Nagi creates culturally specific stories built around universal questions of love, belonging, dignity, and transformation.
His narrative work has received recognition across independent film festivals and community-rooted arts spaces. Later Leon, which Nagi wrote and directed, won Narrative Short Film at the Watts Film Festival and Best Short at the Reel to Reel Global Film Festival. As a writer and co-lead actor on Rites of Passage, his work received recognition from Palm Springs International ShortFest, the Pan African Film Festival, BronzeLens Film Festival, and Urban Fest Orlando. Nagi also produced Our Father, directed by Janelle Christa, which is currently active on the festival circuit.
Nagi's developing industry experience includes the NBCUniversal Directing Fellowship, Monkeypaw Productions' Writers Track, House of Still's Director Understudy and Writer program, Streamland Media and Picture Head's pre-apprenticeship, Venice Arts' Digital Storytelling and Media Fellowship, the My Career Pathways Prototype Directors Track, and Reel to Reel Global's Project Management Apprenticeship. His experience extends across writing, directing, production, post-production, episodic television, digital storytelling, and community-based filmmaking.
Through Last Born Cinema, Nagi is building a slate of narrative and documentary work led by La Promesa, Out of Bounds, and Black Waters. His directing language combines grounded realism with poetic handheld movement, intimate composition, intentional lighting, environmental pressure, and performance. His goal is to create films that are emotionally honest, culturally meaningful, and capable of reaching audiences far beyond the communities where they begin.
Screenings
Our Father
Later Leon
The Path
Industry
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Filmography
Cinema built from the will to rise.
Rise. Create. Endure.
Open for inquiries in directing, writing consultations, and editing. For festival, speaking, and creative collaboration — email to start a conversation.
nagimoore2@gmail.com