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Talent Accelerator, Industry Standard, Announces 2024/2025 Experience Residencies Cohort, Five Professionals Embark at Premium Studios by Netflix Newsroom (2024)
Industry Standard Announces 2024-2025 Experience Residences Cohort in collaboration with Netflix Creative Equity Fund (2024)
Meet Honesty Gant by Canvas Rebel (2024)
Checkout Honesty Gant’s Story by Voyage KC (2024)
Kansas City Film Festival International KCAI Staff Films by The Kansas City Art Institute (2024)
Missouri State students' "Kickback Chronicles" explores Black college experience in Midwest by Springfield News-Leader (2022)
About Me
Honesty Taszhé Gant, professionally known as Honesty Taszhé, is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. Honesty was born and raised in Kansas City, MO, and resides in Brooklyn, NY. As a graduate of Missouri State University, she holds a Bachelor of Science in Digital Film and Television Production and a Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing. As a black disabled woman, she prides herself on developing narrative and nonfiction projects that are honest, vulnerable, and relatable depictions of Black, Brown, and Indigenous life.
Some of Honesty's previous works have focused on black women and girls' identity, love, and loss struggles. One of her earliest shorts, Post Miseriam (2019), was a short film winner for the Missouri Broadcast Educators Association, and her short film Spark (2024) was an official selection of the Los Angeles Lif-Off Film Festival. Her recent short film, JEN (2024), was awarded Best Heartland Short for Kansas City FilmFest International. Honesty holds over twenty film festival official selections and five film festival wins for narrative projects she has written, directed, and/or produced over the last few years.
Recently, Honesty was selected as an Industry Standard 2024-2025 Experience Resident sponsored by the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity. As a resident, Honesty serves as a post-producer for Story Syndicate on a Netflix documentary series. She is currently in pre-production for her nonfiction directorial debut, 913: Above the Law, and in distribution for her narrative web series Kickback Chronicles.
Outside of her narrative and nonfiction pursuits, Honesty spends her time dabbling in photography and writing poetry.
