Adrian Metoyer III
Supporting Artist, All Sites
Adrian Metoyer III is an emerging independent filmmaker from Compton. He is co-director of the creative studio Rivercane Media. Adrian raised his children in Hesperia and continues to document Black life across Southern California. After spending most of his career as a paraeducator working with special needs children and being a devoted foster parent for over a decade, he chose to follow his dream of making films full time. Adrian was the force behind all of our aerial photography on this project and helped support our video interviews at St. Mark’s Baptist Church.
“While documenting St. Marks, I kept thinking…the church will survive, because the church is the people…It made me really think about how, even through displacement, our Black communities still thrive…”