CANDICE VERNON

ABOUT CANDICE

Candice Vernon has keen fashion sensibilities and is a mind readers sometimes…

She’s also a former ad agency Executive Producer, turned Director hailing from the small parish of St Ann, Jamaica. Having grown up in three different countries, Jamaica, USA, and Germany, gave her a uniquely diverse experience and outlook on humans as subjects, which sparked her interest in storytelling. She loves a good comedy-drama, and secretly wants to direct a super hero film..hint hint. 

Vernon’s award winning short film, Make America Great?, which she wrote, directed, and produced screened in festivals world-wide, including the Cannes Short Film Corner, winning the Audience Award for Best Short at the Zero Film Festival and The National Black Film Festival, with write-ups appearing in The Hollywood Reporter, Decider.com, and other publications.  She has directed for clients such as Warner Media|HBO, Spotify, Hulu, BuzzFeed, Facebook Watch, Instagram, Chico’s and The Bob Marley Foundation. Most notably she wrote and directed, The Dream Still Lives, a tribute video by Stevie Wonder & CAA, for Martin Luther King Jr.s 50th anniversary of his passing, starring various celebrities such as The Obama’s, Common, Meryl Streep, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, and many more. The video has garnered over 1 billion impressions to date.

Vernon is also the host and leader of Soho House West Hollywood’s Women In Film Club and is currently campaigning for an invitation to Oprah’s yearly Sunday brunch, but until then she keeps busy developing new projects. She received her BA in Film & TV from Temple University and currently resides in Los Angeles. Now let’s get her to Aunty O’s.