Marlea Edwards is a multi-disciplinary creative artist and creative consultant with a key focus on visual storytelling and connecting to audiences. Creating for broadcasters, brands and businesses so they can find their voice, be innovative and take audiences on a journey, her aim is to create stunning visuals, collaborate effectively with influencers and other artists whilst maintaining an engaging narrative that creates a lasting bond. A global independent professional creative director, producer, director, writer, filmmaker, edit producer and creative consultant, she is CEO & Founder of Me & You films a boutique production company.
Marlea is an accomplished creative and visual storyteller, working with clients from all over the world as a creative and as a consultant. She began her career in theatre aged 7 before moving into digital in her twenties. She works with clients to provide new creative ideas and Art that manifests into Branded Content, Broadcast Television, Commercials, Short Films, Script Development, Fashion Shows, Live Events, Music visuals, Theatre, Livestreams and social media content from inception to launch.
A graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours in Performing arts and media, she has creatively directed live content and directed video content for Tom Ford and Tom Ford Beauty (Award winning luxury fashion designer, film director, and fashion house), produced commercials for Gucci, produced and directed content at the London 2012 Olympic Games, creating content for the Basketball Games (12.5 million viewers for the final in the U.S alone) and the Paralympics Wheelchair Basketball Games, Multicam live directing for Yahoo! Wireless Festival, Roundhouse Theatre, Paris Fashion week and European Football Championship (Euro's 2016) to producing live concerts such as Lenny Kravitz in Paris and QUEEN + Adam Lambert. Marlea served as a freelance Creative Consultant for YouTube and Creator Up! working with influencers that have over 100k Subscribers and hi-profile brands who wish to engage with their audience. A traveller, she is a keen anthropologist, having spent her life and career dissecting life and cultures to reveal the true beauty that exists within and without. Sheis a lifelong advocate in creative arts for healing and has worked as a humanitarian with young people and disadvantaged people in the U.K and South America, creating and sharing art with communities that have limited access and raising funds for work to continue. Born in the UK with roots in the Caribbean, Marlea is an avid mindfulness, meditation and yoga practitioner she also studies metaphysics and how they can give an additional element to the creative process, alter narratives and end results.
Marlea Edwards has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Episode 210: Me + You + Art + Wellness with Marlea Edwards
February 20th, 2024 | 52 mins 54 secs
aruba, brooklyn, director, dominica, filmmaker, garms: black culture's influence on british fashion, glocal citizens podcast, jamaica, leap transmedia, london, marlea edwards, me + you films, producer, storyteller, washington d.c., wellness practitioner