Lavado Stubbs is an award-winning director and producer, born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas. He began his career in Nassau before branching out to the United States via Los Angeles, and Canada via Toronto. Over the years, Stubbs has developed a cinematic style rooted in Bahamian music and popular culture. In 2014, he received the Bahamian Icon Award, and went on to form his own production company, Conchboy Films. He has won accolades for short documentaries including “AFTER: The Kellie Greene Story,” which aired on Direct TV while winning first place at the Enzian Film Slam competition, and music videos for major label artists, such as Sony Records Grammy award-winning group, Baha Men. In addition to these achievements, Lavado and the company have seen great success through their work on short films and music videos along with commercials. More recently, Stubbs has worked with environmental and government organisations on documentary and public service films around ecological issues and maritime conservation. BODIES OF WATER (2021) centres on the ocean’s twin. legacies of slave transport and ecological violence, and explores questions of preservation and restoration of the ocean’s future possibilities. PLASTIC WARRIORS (2019) follows the efforts of environmental activist Kristal ‘Ocean’ Ambrose to battle plastic pollution in The Bahamas, and highlights stategies of youth empowerment to engineer change.