Adia Ivey (they/them) is a producer and director based in Chicago. As a director, Adia explores relationships — with ourselves, our community, and the obstacles that influence how we navigate the world. They explore this through a Black Queer womanist lens using various genres and often shifting between from scripted narrative and documentary. As a producer, Adia guides underrepresented stories from development through distribution while curating an inclusive work environment and maintaining the creative agency of the collaborating storyteller.

In 2017, their short film Down The Rabbit Hole was a finalist in the Sarasota Single Take Competition and screened in Chicago’s (In)Justice For All Film Festival (2018). Interning at Kartemquin in 2019, they grew interested in finding ways to make storytelling a communal and impact-driven experience that lives beyond a traditional theatrical run. Through these filmmaking workshops as well as their fellowship with OpenTelevision in 2021, Adia developed MANIFOLD, a docuseries following the stories of Chicago's Black and Queer artists, organizers and everyday people. The series has screened at Chicago’s Reeling, Black Alphabet, Flip The Script, Gary International Black Film Festival and Irepetra International Documentary Festival. MANIFOLD is available on OTV’s streaming platform.

Adia looks forward to continuing their filmmaking journey at the American Film Institute through 2025.