Good Home Training: Film Screening Q&A with Evolyn Brooks, Riche Holmes Grant, and Kimberly Mayhorn
This event has been cancelled.
Macon Library is pleased to offer a screening of awarding-winning film Good Home Training and Q&A with Co-Directors and Executive Producers Evolyn Brooks and Riche Holmes Grant, moderated by Kimberly Mayhorn.
Good Home Training is a film about the legacy, resistance, and joy that generations of Black women have built at home — the kind whispered over dinner tables, sewn into Sunday dresses, and baked into well-worn recipes. It is a visual love letter to the mothers, grandmothers, aunties, families, and communities that raised us.
Through storytelling, a shared meal, and a hands-on baking session, the film honors figures like Malinda Russell — believed to be the first Black person to self-publish a cookbook — while connecting her legacy to modern creatives. At its core, Good Home Training is both a tribute to the past and a call to carry its lessons forward with intention and pride.
Directed by: Evolyn Brooks & Riche Holmes Grant
Run time: 12 minutes
Place Malinda Russell's self-published cookbook on hold in the BPL catalog here. Please RSVP in advance as space is limited.
PARTICIPANTS
Evolyn Brooks is an award-winning TV Showrunner, Executive Producer, Director, Experiential Events Producer, and Independent Filmmaker. She has produced, directed and created successful television content in talk, unscripted, food and lifestyle, home design, variety, and hidden camera formats. Evolyn helped develop and launch one-hour talk shows for Queen Latifah and Tyra Banks and has major market and syndicated production credits from OWN, Telepictures/Warner Brothers, King World, Lifetime, BRAVO, WE Network, MTV, FOX, BET, CBS, and NBC. Through her company Sunbrook Productions, she has produced experiential activations and virtual events for global brands such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, west elm, beautycon, bumble bff, the BET Experience, and AFROPUNK. Evolyn has been nominated for an Emmy Award and is the recipient of an NAACP Image Award and two Namic Vision Awards. She is a member of the Producer’s Guild of America, NYWIFT and SAG-AFTRA. A versatile creator and storyteller with an MBA, Evolyn seamlessly blends her creative expertise with business acumen, strategy and data-driven results. She began her versatile career on-air in television news as a broadcast journalist. IG @evolynbrooks
Riche Holmes Grant is an award-winning TV host, producer/director, writer, and multi-venture entrepreneur whose work spans film, television, digital, and print media. Whether in front of the camera or behind it, she brings stories to life with a distinctive blend of strategic insight and creative vision. A graduate of Columbia Law School and Brown University, including a year at the London School of Economics, Riche launched her career as an entrepreneur in the education and consumer product spaces before expanding into media. As co-founder and creative director of Good Word Media Group, Riche leads the company’s storytelling strategy and oversees the development of original narrative, documentary, and lifestyle content. She has produced live lifestyle segments, branded docu-series, digital-first campaigns, and print features for brands such as Martha Stewart, Better Homes & Gardens, Google, Williams Sonoma, and West Elm. She received a Telly Award for hosting Real Simple magazine’s Home Upgrade makeover series on PeopleTV. Riche is a licensed attorney in New York and Maryland and is a member of the Brown University President’s Advisory Council on Entrepreneurship. She also serves on the Executive Board of the Annapolis Film Festival. Riche splits her time between the Washington, DC area and Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband, daughter, and golden retriever. IG @allthingsriche
Kimberly Mayhorn is an award-winning filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist with over twenty years of experience in television and film. Her work spans major networks and institutions including NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CNN, CBS, MTV, PBS, ESPN, A&E, National Geographic, the Travel Channel, Discovery Health Channel, and the United Nations AIDS program. She served as Producer and Editor on Good Home Training, which was an official selection of the 2025 Oscar® qualifying, Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival. She is a fellow of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and Yaddo. Her work explores memory, identity, and social justice through cinematic and experimental forms. Kimberly has received nominations for an Emmy Award and a GLAAD Media Award, and is a recipient of a Telly Award. Her artwork has been exhibited at institutions including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, HERE Arts Center, The Delaware Contemporary, and the African American Museum in Philadelphia. She lives and works in New York and is a graduate of Howard University.
