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About | Under the Mush

Under The Mush (UTM) was an online magazine founded by Christie Neptune and co-founded by Cassandra Waldrop during their Junior and freshman years of college in 2007. With the help of college friends from Fordham University, community members, and family, Neptune and Waldrop ran UTM for five years. 

UTM  began as an online blog and monthly television show on Brooklyn Community Access Television (BCAT). It was relaunched in 2010 and made exclusively available online. The magazine ceased operations in 2012. UTM covered a range of topics in music, culture, fashion, and lifestyle in both video and print formats.

Artists featured included: Amanda Blank, J*Davey, 88 Keys, Kyle Goen, Kiran Goraya, Ninjasonik, Damien Lemon, Shani Peters, Nikayatu Jusu, DJ Eclipse, Jackie Christie, Mac Premo, Oliver Jeffers, and Johnny Go Figure, among others.

Video Archive: https://vimeo.com/underthemush

Contributors:

Christie Neptune, Culture

Cassandra Waldrop, Events and Culture

Christina Edwards, Lifestyle

Rocky Knights, Events and Lifestyle

Steve Beckford, Music

Marlena Batts, Fashion

Daiquan Stevens, Music

Christopher Neptune, Music Composition and Production

Kareem Wallace, Photographer

Aubrey Stallard, Photographer

Gian Carlo, Videographer and Editor

Anthony Slyvester, Videographer, and Editor

Brett Rodel, Editor

Publish Date: 2010

Film Made Right: Nikyatu Jusu

Under the Mush Interviews Emerging filmmaker, NIKYATU JUSU

Nikyatu Jusu Bio (Present): Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Sierra Leonean-American Filmmaker Nikyatu's films have screened at top tier festivals nationally and internationally. With a BA from Duke University and an MFA from NYU's Tisch Graduate Film school, she's earned various awards including NYU’s Spike Lee Fellowship Award, the Princess Grace Narrative film grant and Director’s Guild of America Honorable Mentions. Three of her short films were acquired by and aired on HBO. Her latest film Suicide By Sunlight: a project funded by THROUGH HER LENS and sponsored by the Tribeca Film Institute and Chanel, made its debut at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and is featured online at shortofttheweek. Nikyatu made her TV Directing debut with an episode of the original scripted horror anthology: Two Sentence Horror Stories, which premiered on CW Sept 2019. Her feature script, NANNY, was selected for the 2019 Sundance Institute Creative Producing Labs & Summit, the 2020 Sundance Screenwriter's Lab and Director's Lab, and the 2019 IFP Project Forum. Most recently, NANNY, was one of 35 projects selected for the 2020 Creative Capital Awards. Nikyatu is a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Film & Video department at George Mason University where she teaches Screenwriting and Directing and is currently in development on her first feature film.