Everything Latavia creates is coated in sentimentality.
Born in Miami and raised in the UK, Latavia Young is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary creative director based in Kansas City, working across Los Angeles, New York, London, and Mexico City. She began her career in film and television development and production at major studios and production companies including NBCUniversal, RadicalMedia, and Jax Media (an Imagine Entertainment subsidiary), contributing to projects such as The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, A Black Lady Sketch Show, and Everyone Else Burns. Her personal filmmaking—long an undercurrent alongside her studio work—includes the Sundance-premiered 16mm short Grace (producer), My Fierce Aunt Bianca (co-director/editor), which screened at MoMA and Inside Out, creative directing the FIFA World Cup Fan Festival performance for HAILES, creative directing the 2026 Reel Black Film Festival in collaboration with Janelle Monaé's Fem the Future, and the upcoming 16mm short Peeling starring Krys Marshall. She continues to produce narrative-based brand, artist and album campaigns, live music and festival shows, large-scale events, and much more.
She is the founder and chief creative officer of YEYA LLC, a creative playground and dual-engine production company that operates as a nexus for commercial production, cultural storytelling, and tech-enabled artistic innovation.
LISSETT DENIS
I HATE MY EX
LOGITECH
SAPPHIC CON
REEL BLACK FILM FEST
KANSAS CITY PBS
JAX MEDIA
AT WILL MEDIA
NBCUNIVERSAL