Exclusive: Rashidi Hendrix has joined Independent Artists Media (Iam) as a partner.
Hendrix brings with him a roster of established and emerging television/feature writer & director clients including Ron McCants, Christopher Moore (End of the Road), Kiki McKnight (Bad Dad Rehab), Angele Cooper (Dating Covid), Chris Thompson (Full Frontal with Samantha Bee), Naren Henry (screenwriter of Red Thread and winner of the MGM/Black List writer competition), horror podcast creator turned writer Tonia Ransom (Nightlight), award winning director Colin Costello (Storage), actor/director Reagan Gomez (Queen Sugar) and actor/comedian Eva Evans.
Prior to joining Iam, Hendrix built his roster of clients and projects at his own management/production company Metallic Entertainment. He recently executive produced, co-directed and won three Emmy Awards for Hulu’s Set the Record Straight: The Jam Master Jay Case.
A graduate of Florida A&m University, Hendrix is an advocate for diversity...
Hendrix brings with him a roster of established and emerging television/feature writer & director clients including Ron McCants, Christopher Moore (End of the Road), Kiki McKnight (Bad Dad Rehab), Angele Cooper (Dating Covid), Chris Thompson (Full Frontal with Samantha Bee), Naren Henry (screenwriter of Red Thread and winner of the MGM/Black List writer competition), horror podcast creator turned writer Tonia Ransom (Nightlight), award winning director Colin Costello (Storage), actor/director Reagan Gomez (Queen Sugar) and actor/comedian Eva Evans.
Prior to joining Iam, Hendrix built his roster of clients and projects at his own management/production company Metallic Entertainment. He recently executive produced, co-directed and won three Emmy Awards for Hulu’s Set the Record Straight: The Jam Master Jay Case.
A graduate of Florida A&m University, Hendrix is an advocate for diversity...
- 12/15/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
The Black TV & Film Collective (Btfc) is merging with The Parity Project, a data-driven organization founded by Black Writers Guild of America (WGA) union members.
Both parties, who have worked for 8 years to combat underrepresentation in the industry aim to achieve “financial and narrative equity for African American professional writers within the TV industry” with the merger, which they hope will increase their impact. They will now both go forward under the banner The Black TV & Film Collective.
Among the initiatives launched by both Btfc and The Parity Projects in the past are career support, mentorship, and networking for members to assist artists of Black and African descent in carving out financially sustainable careers in television, film and digital entertainment.
In 2020, Btfc also launched a Black Producers Fellowship, granting six emerging Black producers the means to complete a short film while The Parity Project developed a mentorship program called...
Both parties, who have worked for 8 years to combat underrepresentation in the industry aim to achieve “financial and narrative equity for African American professional writers within the TV industry” with the merger, which they hope will increase their impact. They will now both go forward under the banner The Black TV & Film Collective.
Among the initiatives launched by both Btfc and The Parity Projects in the past are career support, mentorship, and networking for members to assist artists of Black and African descent in carving out financially sustainable careers in television, film and digital entertainment.
In 2020, Btfc also launched a Black Producers Fellowship, granting six emerging Black producers the means to complete a short film while The Parity Project developed a mentorship program called...
- 11/12/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Black TV & Film Collective a nonprofit development and production hub for artists of Black and African descent, has merged with The Parity Project, a data-driven organization with the mission to create financial and narrative equity for African American professional writers within the TV industry, to address systemic racism in Hollywood.
Together, now known singularly as The Black TV & Film Collective, they will offer production and career support, mentorship, and networking to creatives of Black and African descent who are seeking to become creators, producers, directors, and writers in the fields of TV, film, and digital entertainment. Going forward both organizations are excited to increase their impact as a merged organization.
“We see serving Los Angeles and New York as just the beginning, and over time we will open hubs in other major cities across the United States and the world, said Btfc Co-Founder and Board Member Hurriyah Muhammad.
Together, now known singularly as The Black TV & Film Collective, they will offer production and career support, mentorship, and networking to creatives of Black and African descent who are seeking to become creators, producers, directors, and writers in the fields of TV, film, and digital entertainment. Going forward both organizations are excited to increase their impact as a merged organization.
“We see serving Los Angeles and New York as just the beginning, and over time we will open hubs in other major cities across the United States and the world, said Btfc Co-Founder and Board Member Hurriyah Muhammad.
- 11/10/2021
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Just ahead of the 2018 fall television season, a new inclusion initiative has launched on social media.
Entitled #ShowUsYourRoom, the initiative encourages showrunners and writers to post photos of their rooms on Twitter and Instagram, to show “who is actually walking the walk” when it comes to inclusive hiring.
“This is a time where everyone is talking about diversity and inclusion,” Amanda Idoko, a writer on the animated series “Central Park” and founder of the initiative, tells Variety exclusively. “Everyone’s saying they’re promoting diversity and inclusion, but every year the numbers are the same. People are saying they want diversity and inclusion but not actually fighting for it.”
Idoko, who is organizing the initiative in conjunction with the Inclusion and Equity Subcommittee of the WGA Committee of Black Writers, which created and led by Ron McCants, says she was first inspired to take action after seeing the 2017 Hollywood Diversity Report.
Entitled #ShowUsYourRoom, the initiative encourages showrunners and writers to post photos of their rooms on Twitter and Instagram, to show “who is actually walking the walk” when it comes to inclusive hiring.
“This is a time where everyone is talking about diversity and inclusion,” Amanda Idoko, a writer on the animated series “Central Park” and founder of the initiative, tells Variety exclusively. “Everyone’s saying they’re promoting diversity and inclusion, but every year the numbers are the same. People are saying they want diversity and inclusion but not actually fighting for it.”
Idoko, who is organizing the initiative in conjunction with the Inclusion and Equity Subcommittee of the WGA Committee of Black Writers, which created and led by Ron McCants, says she was first inspired to take action after seeing the 2017 Hollywood Diversity Report.
- 9/18/2018
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
The stars of today honored the stars of tomorrow at the 38th College Television Awards May 24 at the Saban Media Center in Los Angeles. Recognizing the year’s best student-made TV filmmaking, the Television Academy Foundation was joined by presenters Mandy Moore, Chelsea Handler, Samira Wiley, Richard Cabral, Jason George, and Bill Nye, in a ceremony hosted by Anthony Anderson. Referred to as the Student Emmys, the CTAs are a nationwide competition highlighting TV writers, directors, producers, and creators in a variety of categories. Like the Emmy Awards themselves, entries are vetted by Television Academy members and judged by “industry standards of quality, imagination, and innovation.” Check out our TV casting listings now! This year’s 74 honorees who attended the ceremony also took part in the Television Summit, a seminar presented by the Television Academy Foundation. Students met and participated in discussions with HBO’s senior vice president Jay Roewe; Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger,...
- 5/24/2017
- backstage.com
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