Rachael Moton is a filmmaker from Philadelphia, PA.

Rachael Moton is a writer, director, and lover of memes. Her obsession with weird indie films and reality television led her to attend Temple University for film school where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Film with a concentration in Directing.

In 2019, Rachael was a finalist in the ABC Women’s Production Initiative where she was invited to pitch commercial concepts to studio executives. Later, her dark-comedy short Dad’s Dead Damnit was selected for the 2019 Sundance Ignite fellowship.

Rachael is currently developing her first feature film, Paper Trail, a dark comedy film about performative allyship and gentrification in North Philadelphia. Paper Trail was awarded the 2019 SFFILM Westridge Grant, selected to be a part of the 2020 Sundance Talent Forum and the 2020 IFP Week Project Forum. In 2021, Rachael was selected by Mural Arts Philadelphia for their Fellowship for Black Artists. Later that year, she was chosen for TIFF's 2021 Filmmaker's Lab. In 2022, she was a finalist for ATT and Tribeca’s Untold Stories program. In 2022, Rachael screened her shorts at the Philadelphia Art Museum.

As a storyteller, Rachael is passionate about sharing stories of marginalized people with the goal of promoting empathy, sometimes by utilizing comedy. In addition to filmmaking, Rachael is a film educator at Moore College of Art & Design.

If she wasn’t a filmmaker, Rachael believes she would’ve been a great reality tv star.