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Video Interview, TV Writing Fellowships Incubators Workshops WGA Strike 🖥️ Michelle Lesley Johnson Script Coordinator

On this episode, we speak with produced TV Writer and Script Coordinator, Michelle Lesley Johnson. Working her way from support staff to writing staff, Michelle has 9 produced TV writing credits, including Tyler Perry’s “House of Payne” and “Meet the Browns” on TBS, and “Let’s Stay Together” on BET. In addition to her TV writing credits, Michelle also works a premium cable and streaming script coordinator on notable shows including “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Winning Time,” “The Acolyte,” and “BMF”. Take an idea from outline to draft and rewrite one of your existing scripts in the upcoming Script Anatomy TV Draft Intensive with instructor Michelle Lesley Johnson, every Sunday from 10:00 AM to1:00 PM PDT, Sep 17 – Oct 15, 2023.

Video Interview, The Forgotten Occupation: Jim Crow goes to Haiti 🪢 Forbidden History with Filmmaker Alain Martin 🎬

🎙️ On this episode, we speak with Haitian filmmaker, Alain Martin. Alain continues our series “From Haiti to Hollywood,” as he offers us a gripping ‘forbidden history lesson’ about the Caribbean diaspora. In Alain’s award-winning documentary, and extremely important cultural work, “The Forgotten Occupation: Jim Crow Goes to Haiti,” Alain explores the history of the United States occupation of Haiti from 1915 – 1934. Watch “The Forgotten Occupation: Jim Crow Goes to Haiti” feature length documentary now on Filmocracy.com, August 20 – 28, 2023, as part of the virtual screenings of the Haiti International Film Festival #HIFF2023.

Video Interview, Working on Studio Projects 🍿 Production Coordinator Sharice Keyes Star Wars Disney+ Ahsoka

🎙️ On this episode, we speak with filmmaker Sharice Keyes. We discuss what it was like producing her first short film, as well as her role as a postproduction coordinator at the George Lucas-founded, and now Disney-owned Industrial Light & Magic, working on the biggest projects in Hollywood, including Marvel’s “The Eternals,” “Dungeons and Dragons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” and the upcoming new Star Wars Disney+ streaming series, “Ahsoka.”

Video Interview, How to Make it in Film and TV “From Haiti to Hollywood” 🇭🇹 Filmmaker Romane Antoine Simon 🎥

🎙️ On this episode, we speak with multi-award-winning Haitian actor, dancer, model, stuntman, fight choreographer, and filmmaker, Romane Antoine Simon. Romane continues our series “From Haiti to Hollywood,” as he shares his life’s journey as an artist through the release of his most recent feature film, “#FamilyMan.” #FamilyMan tells the gripping story of an Indian father’s life who is turned upside down when his family is killed in a senseless car accident, by a prominent man, who was driving while drunk.

Video Interview, Haiti International Film Festival 2023 🇭🇹 Haiti is a Nation of Artists 🎥 Haitian Bricolage Gallery

🎙️ On this episode, we speak with the most important person in Haitian cinema, filmmaker, cinema professor, and executive director of the Haiti International Film Festival (August 19-20, 2023), Jacquil Constant, MA. We discuss his groundbreaking multi-award-winning documentary, Haiti is a Nation of Artists, the Haiti International Film Festival, and the Haitian Bricolage Art Gallery. In addition, Jacquil gives us an impromptu Master Class in Impact Producing with a multitude of opportunities, to screen your work, beyond the Hollywood film, and television studio system.

Video Interview, How to Get Your Film into Sundance Film Festival & on HBO Max 🎞️ Patricia Vidal Delgado

📽️ Portuguese international multi-award-winning filmmaker and director Patricia Vidal Delgado discusses how she got her University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Production feature thesis film, “La leyenda negra,” into the Sundance Film Festival, how she strategized once she was in the festival, and how she got her film distributed through HBO Max after her movie screened at Sundance.