Imani Lenz | Creative Artist
Camera Rolling
Video Series
Share your story through conversation and music.
Let’s Share Your Story
Camera Rolling is an ongoing creative project documenting real people and places through video, photo, music, and conversation.
It’s not about virality — it’s about preservation, presence, and shared authorship.
What It Means to be Featured
Your story is documented as it naturally unfolds. Too many stories disappear because they weren’t optimized, branded, or monetized fast enough.
This project exists to move slower — to document what’s already meaningful before it’s lost.
You’re treated as a collaborator, not a subject
The work prioritizes authenticity over metrics
What’s created lives within a long-form creative archive
Here’s What You Receive
Docu-Series Feature
A thoughtfully filmed, long-form video centered on you, your space, and your story. This feature is built around conversation and lived experience — not performance. Filming unfolds at a natural pace, allowing room for reflection, process, and context. The final piece lives as part of an ongoing documentary series focused on real people and real places.
What you receive:
One long-form documentary-style video
A filmed conversation or observational session rooted in your real environment
A collaborative, consent-led creative process
Shared across social media platforms
Music Vlog Feature
A short-form, music-led video shaped by presence, movement, and place. Music vlogs blend original music with visual storytelling — capturing moments as they unfold rather than staging scenes. The camera follows energy, rhythm, and interaction, allowing music to guide the pacing and tone.
What you receive:
One music-driven vlog
A relaxed, documentary-style filming approach
A creative artifact that lives within an evolving music + video body of work
Shared across social media platforms
Who This Is For
Creators, and non-creators that have a meaningful positive story they want to document
People who value process over promotion
Those interested in contributing to a cultural record
Anyone who wants their story told with care
Small Businesses
Neighborhood cafés, coffee shops, and tea houses
Barbershops, salons, and beauty studios
Wellness spaces (yoga studios, herbalists, healing practitioners)
Food vendors, chefs, and family-owned restaurants
Social impact businesses
Creators
Visual artists and photographers
Musicians, DJs, and sound artists
Filmmakers and documentarians
Designers, illustrators, and muralists
Writers, poets, and storytellers
Culture Keepers
Community organizers and elders
Cultural educators and historians
Collectors, archivists, and curators
Event hosts and space holders
Families and intergenerational groups
Black Stock Footage
Black Stock Footage
A Living Archive, Rooted in Real Life
Footage captured through the Camera Rolling video series doesn’t just amplify your story business— it can also contributes to Black Stock Footage, a growing visual archive dedicated to preserving the richness of Black life, culture, and creativity. (Optional)
By sharing your journey, your story becomes part of a larger legacy—helping future generations see and feel what everyday excellence looked like in our communities. It’s about more than content. It’s about memory, visibility, and cultural preservation.
Together, we’re creating something lasting.
Imani Lenz, Founder of Black Stock Footage
Powered by Contributions, Rooted in Purpose
This project is sustained through community contribution.
Contributions support production planning, filming time, photographing, storage , editing time, travel and lodging, archiving, and the long-term care of these stories. Rather than traditional pricing, participation is contribution-based — rooted in shared investment rather than transactional exchange.
Contribution is required to participate, but the exact amount is shaped by your scope, scale, and what you can thoughtfully contribute. Every feature is approached with the same care, intention, and respect.
How To Get Featured:
Interested in sharing your story as part of the Camera Rolling Video Series?
Here’s how the process works:
1. Fill Out the Interest Form
Share a bit about your business, location, and what you’d like to preserve or share through this project.
This helps me understand your story and determine whether it’s a good fit for an upcoming stop on the tour.
(This is not a first-come, first-served process — selections are made thoughtfully and intentionally.)
2. Confirm Your Participation & Contribution
If selected, you’ll receive an official invitation with next steps — including a pre-production planning call, release forms and more. A 25% deposit is required to secure your participation.
💡 This is a community-supported creative project.
Your contribution helps sustain filming, travel, editing, and archiving — making it possible to continue documenting real stories in real places, without traditional production barriers.
3. Complete Talent & Property Release Forms
Anyone appearing in your video will be asked to complete a talent and/or property release form prior to filming.
All forms are provided digitally and completed in advance to ensure clarity, care, and a smooth production day.
This process is designed to be collaborative, respectful, and human-centered. If your story is selected, you’ll be guided through each step with care and clarity.
Make a Contribution
FAQs
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All participants must sign a standard Talent Release Form before filming. If your business space, products, or clothing display any brand names, logos, or copyrighted designs other than your own, you’ll also need to sign an Intellectual Property Release Form confirming permission to show them. For content included in the Black Stock Footage archive, we avoid featuring outside brand names that aren’t part of the business being highlighted. Whenever possible, please ensure your space and wardrobe are clear of non-featured brand logos.
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Any business owner, creator, or working professional can apply. We’re starting in the Tampa Bay Area, but you can still submit if you’re outside the area—I’ll keep your application for future tour stops.
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You’re welcome to invite friends, family, staff, or customers to be part of your music video feature. Anyone who appears on camera will need to sign a Talent Release Form before filming. Inviting people connected to your business can make your feature feel more authentic and lively.
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Your feature will be live public on YouTube and social media and will also contribute to the Black Stock Footage archive (optional).
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The feature is contribution-based, meaning there’s no fixed fee. You contribute what you can to help cover production, editing, and travel costs. Optional add-ons like a brand photoshoot, extra video clips, are available at an additional cost.
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Filming for the base feature typically takes 1–3 hours depending on the complexity of the production. If you add a full brand interview or photoshoot, plan for additional time. Editing time varies between 1-2 weeks and you will be notified in advance before publishing occurs.
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No. Submitting an application does not guarantee participation. I review all applications to ensure the best fit for the vision, schedule, and storytelling of the feature schedule.
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Not necessarily. If you don’t have a storefront, we’ll work together to choose the best filming location that fits your work and story.
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Final creative direction rests with me as the artist, but I’m committed to representing your business authentically and with respect.
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Yes—my music is clean and family-friendly, making it suitable for general audiences and professional environments. My songs often talk about my journey as a creative artist, videographer, photographer, and overall storyteller, drawing from real experiences in the creative industry and the communities I’ve worked in.
You can listen to my tracks on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and Amazon Music
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Fill out the Camera Rolling Video Series application form here and I’ll be in touch if you’re selected for the next stop.