Attika J. Torrence

P E A C E

Attika J. Torrence is a two time Emmy Award nominated producer, Television Academy Honors recipient, an award-winning director, an actor, screenplay writer, novelist and a film industry veteran with over 20 years of experience.

Attika’s two Emmy Nominations and the Television Academy Honors Award came from a six-part docu-series he produced entitled Rest In Power – The Trayvon Martin Story. “Rest In Power “ was executive produced by Jay Z and the parents of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin.

Most recently Attika was tapped by Coattails Productions to produce and direct the entire #ShowUpTurnOut voting campaign for the 2021 NYC primary elections.

Attika created a curriculum that was taught at Long Island University’s – Brooklyn Campus with famed actor Malik Yoba. The class, entitled The Working Actor w/Malik Yoba was also produced as a live event and television pilot with NBCUniversal entitled The Working Actor w/ Malik Yoba Monologue Slam.

Attika is a founding partner and producer of the Brooklyn FAM (film, arts and media) Conference along with actor Jamie Hector, which is a three-day conference held in the heart of Bed Stuy, Brooklyn at Restoration Plaza’s historic Billie Holliday Theater. The Brooklyn FAM Conference (formerly the Bed Stuy / Crown Heights Film Festival) brings out the who’s who in Brooklyn’s thriving film, arts and media community.

Always creating and innovating, Attika just wrapped production on his latest feature film and is currently in post production, in preparation for a successful festival run.

During the height of the Covid 19 pandemic, Attika produced and narrated a mini doc called Vacant not Vanquished about NYC during the Covid 19 pandemic and sold out of his SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION novel BROOKLYN BRED - a 90’s Brooklyn story (which is a coming of age story about a young man’s plight growing up in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn in the early 90’s). Upon selling out of the SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION copies, the paperback version has become required reading for the NYS Education Department’s My Brother’s Keeper program.