Soul Palace
ABOUT US
Soul Palace Studios is an Emmy award winning production company based in New York. Our mission is to create compelling narratives that resonate with audiences and spark meaningful conversations. We believe in the power of storytelling to inspire change and foster understanding across diverse communities. Our team is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of creativity while maintaining a commitment to authenticity and excellence in every project we undertake.
Soul Palace STUDIOS
PROJECTS
CRIMINAL
DIRECTED BY ROBE IMBRIANO
Premiering at the Blackstar Film Festival
AMEND The Fight For America
DIRECTED BY ROBE IMBRIANO
Now streaming on Netflix
Killing County
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER COLIN KAPERNICK
Streaming on Hulu
Soul of a Nation
DIRECTED BY ROBE IMBRIANO
ABC News
WHITE FATIGUE
DIRECTED BY ROBE IMBRIANO
BigStar Original
THE CONSTITUTION PROJECT
THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION
CONSTITUTION PROJECT SERIES
NEWS
FILM PREMIERE
CRIMINAL
featured New Yorker Documentary
Featuring the music and lyrics of Tony Award winners Stew Stewart and Heidi Rodewald (“Passing Strange”) the animation of Cinema Eye winner Thomas Curtis (“Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project”) and the direction of Emmy winner Robe Imbriano (“Soul of a Nation”), Criminal is an animated musical documentary short film that confronts the injustice of people held at the Harris County Jail in Houston, Texas. The vast majority are there because they don’t have enough cash to pay their way out before trial. Because they are poor, thousands are held for months or even shipped to jails out of state when they are supposed to be presumed innocent.
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TEAM
ROBE IMBRIANO
DIRECTOR / SHOWRUNNER
Robe Imbriano is an Emmy Award-winning showrunner. He was the showrunner of the Hulu series, Killing County, with Colin Kaepernick. He co-created the Netflix documentary series Amend, starring Will Smith and featuring Mahershala Ali, Samuel L. Jackson, Sherrilyn Ifill, Bryan Stevenson and a distinguished group of scholars, participants and actors to tell the story of the 14th Amendment and America’s struggle with equality. He was a showrunner of the launch of Soul of a Nation, the very first major broadcast network series about Black life in America, nominated for 11 Emmy Awards in its very first season. Imbriano has written and produced for everyone from Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings to Bill Moyers and Oprah Winfrey, winning numerous honors along the way. He created a series of first-person pieces featuring the voices of America’s economically and socially marginalized for ABC News in prime time. He is a professor at the Columbia Journalism School where he is also Director of the Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights.
THOMAS CURTIS
MOTION GRAPHICS
Thomas Curtis recently won a Cinema Eye award for his work on Going to Mars: the Nikki Giovanni Project, seen on Max and shown at Sundance. He is a Motion Graphics artist and designer whose work ranges from the Annenberg Foundation’s fully animated Science Works film Ozone, National Geographic’s Mission Possible to Right to Offend: The Black Comedy Revolution for A&E and Amend, for Netflix. Recent projects How to Fix an Election (MSNBC), and Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns (Quibi, now Roku). His most recent work is creating the design and animation for Criminal. He applied his own knowledge of the criminal legal system to the design of the animation to bring to visual life the insight of Stew’s lyrics and the intensity of the calls and letters from prisoners in the Harris County Jail.
AMELIA LIM
PRODUCER
Amelia Lim (she/her) has produced and developed award-winning features and series for premium streamers including Netflix, HBO, Apple, Hulu, Amazon, Disney and Nat Geo. She works as a Producer in development at the award-winning Dorothy Street Pictures (Greatest Night in Pop, Pamela, A Love Story) and previously, for Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Emmy award-winning Imagine Entertainment. She most recently produced the short film Kasbi (Tribeca, Frameline48, IFFLA, Walla Walla Movie Crush, Iris Prize) and founded the global production company Mule in 2024, which she runs with her partner Farah Jabir. Her independent producing/directing work has been selected for Tribeca, the PBS x A-DOC Asian-American Stories of Resilience program, Montclair Film Festival, NFFTY, and The Future of Film is Female. Other select credits include: Criminal (BlackStar Film Festival 2024), Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV (Netflix), Amend: The Fight for America (Netflix), Gone Missing (Discovery+), and Nightgowns with Sasha Velour (Roku).
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Soul Palace Studios is an Emmy Award winning production company with a mission to create compelling narratives that resonate with audiences and spark meaningful conversations. We believe in storytelling.
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