Things Are Changing Productions, LLC was founded by Katy and Joél Mejia, Kingston, NY-based educators, parents, activists, musicians and filmmakers.
Jóel Mejia
Joél Mejia is a Kingston, NY-based, entrepreneur, pedagogue, and social activist. He graduated in 2002 from Lehman College with a degree in Economics, but his passion was quickly becoming music production and filmmaking.
In 2007 he began working full-time on his pursuits, freelancing with numerous clients, and mostly looking for ways to explore the intersection between Afro-Latino/Afro-Futurism aesthetics, radical activism, and indigenous shamanic practices.
Above all, it is his relentless pursuit of truth, equity, and justice that fuels his creative projects and work as an educator. He teaches media literacy in a high school in the Bronx, which provides him an opportunity to fulfill his debt to the many mentors that have helped him along his journey, providing the foundation for his current state of mind.
“Switching between the role of artist, entrepreneur, and educator is in balance because of my role as a father. That singular event confirmed that what I am meant to do is be of service to the future generations that will inhabit this planet. I’ve always known that to be my trajectory; it’s just that being a father gives my work even more urgency now.”
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Katy Walker Mejia
Katy Walker Mejia is an educator, mother, activist, musician, and filmmaker. In 2002 she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Video Art from the University of Texas at Austin. After moving to New York City to follow her passion for music and film, she found work as a DJ and produced a slew of high-vibration events with various collaborators. She eventually worked as an Art Director for clients such as Carol’s Daughter, HBO, HBO Documentary Films, and Live Nation. Living in Brooklyn, she forged lasting connections with unique musicians, teaching artists and filmmakers, merging her passion for music and film with her husband, Joél Mejia, and eventually joining Things Are Changing Productions, LLC.
Because she has always seen herself as a multidisciplinary artist, it was a natural step to bring like minds together to create the genre-defying music collective, Dream Circle, which furthers her development in songwriting, storytelling, and filmmaking. Time is Art: Synchronicity & the Collective Dream (2015) was her first feature film and was independently released and screened worldwide and is available on the Gaia platform.
Katy recently directed a short documentary film called Birth From the Earth (2023) which won runner up at the Denton Black Film Festival and won best short film at the 2023 MOM Film Festival.
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