Ky Dickens

Award winning filmmaker Ky Dickens, directed the highly acclaimed documentary Fish out of Water, which uses animation, narratives and historical analysis to deconstruct the seven Bible verses used to condemn homosexuality. Most recently, Ky joined forces with Rock the Vote & Equality Illinois to write and direct the Vote Naked Illinois campaign, which gained national media attention and a segment on FOX News' O'Reilly Factor. In the fall of 2010, Ky was selected as a Documentary Juror for Chicago's Reeling Film Festival. Last winter, her short cell phone video about an abandon snowman was chosen as the “Yahoo! Holiday video of the Year” in the United Kingdom. Ky’s current feature film, Sole Survivor, explores the impact of survivorship on the human condition. In the history of aviation, there have been 14 large-scale, commercial plane crashes with a lone survivor. The documentary follows the journey of George Lamson who, at 17 years old, survived the 1985 crash of Galaxy Airlines Flight 203, as he seeks to meet other sole survivors of aviation crashes. Sole Survivor will wrap in 2012. Ky graduated with Magna Cum Laude honors from Vanderbilt University. She completed a double major in sociology and communications and a minor in Fine Art.