Promoting the development of professional writing specifically for film, television and stage by people of African descent.

Joined August 2011
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$3 bootleg RED TAILS DVDs spotted at Garfield Green Line Station in Chicago. Wait...it's still in the theaters!!!!
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Chicago eats it's artist so make yourself inedible.
adapting a short story from a sci-fi writer to produce in May. Close collaboration with writer and storyboard artist to make it cinema.
I was too busy socializing at #sundance film festival 2012 to social network.
#cinelanfilms Cinelan.com announces $200k 3 min film competition. Anyone can enter. Just make the film, upload to Vimeo.

looking forward to great conversation @ the #blackhouse at #sundance 2012
Can reading an awarding winning screenplay make 1 a great writer? Or just reading great literature?
I like to ask young writers about the last book they read. Thier favorite short story. Reading is essential to writing.
Julie Dash say #Red Tails is a fun "Diesel Punk" film that reads like an live action packed graphic novel. Good talk@ #Sundance this year.
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Sencha, jquery, gps, qr codes and Waka Flaka...that's the kind of day I am having.
Sencha, jquery, gps, qr codes and Waka Flaka...that's the kind of day I am having.
The short story, the short film are building blocks for epic storytelling same way as t-ball begats little league begats high school & on
While I love the industry of nollywood films I desire more varied and compelling content thanks normally offered. The writing...more work!
Rush on Cain Story: "Racially Stereotypical Attack" slatest.slate.com/posts/2011… via @Slatest Why, why are they accusing Cain. He innocence itself.

10-tips-for-better-film-criticism raindance.co.uk/site/10-tips…

As a writer, I find I have to read. There is more to be found in the collective output of global lit than in all the films I have seen.
The depth of black literature remains untapped in regards to film adaptions.
20 years later, Daughters of the Dust is celebrated, what happened to the rest? Was it the writing?
When the hero dies in a movie his journey is more resonant. Who was the last hero to die in an American film?