aac films tells stories; yours and sometimes our own. We do this for love.

aac films is…

leslie g stewart :: producer/director/editor/dp
I’m an educator, editor, artist, and web designer/developer. I worked as an educator and advocate in the social services field for 11 years, and I’ve been a web designer/developer since 1997, running my own web design/development and software training consultancy, impermanentmedia, since 1999. I specialize in providing software training to communities of color and non-profit organizations.

I’ve wanted to make films since I was a kid, but I didn’t make my first short film until early 1995. I made my second short film less than a year later, and then stopped doing anything with film/video until 2004. I’ve taught youth programs in video production and web design, for Girls Get Digital, Street-Level Youth Media, and the Alternative Schools Network in Chicago. I served on the board of directors for Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center, where I was also a volunteer instructor for their weekly screen print workshop from 2004 – 2007.

Kind folks have allowed me to present at the following conferences:
2008 Allied Media Conference, Detroit, MI: Co-facilitator of the Furture of Film and Video Online workshop
2007 Allied Media Conference, Detroit, MI: Facilitator of the Sell Without Selling Out workshop
2004 Child Care Business Expo, Chicago, IL: Facilitator of the ABCs of Computers workshop
2003 Child Care Business Expo, Chicago, IL: Technology Specialist for the Transitioning from Home-based to Center-based Business panel.

Aadi Kristine Nickels :: co-producer/writer/co-dp
Aadi (pronounced odd-E) is a person of the female persuasion with strange tendencies to eat left overs cold and start dance parties in the middle of retail stores. She graduated from film school in Tokyo. She loves a really good “bad” movie as much as an “excellent” movie. Her involvement in aac films is her first venture in filmmaking in the States. Other art forms she dabbles in include poetry, water paint, clarinets and zines.

aac community is…

You.