Ty Johnston of the Atlanta Pitch Summit speaks on getting films funded at the Get Connected in Atlanta, GA. Get Ready! This is the most anticipated entertainment networking event in the Southeast for 2011. This semi-annual event draws Motion Picture and the Television industry’s most prominent studios, development/creative executives, producers, talent/literary agents, managers, attorneys & casting directors.
The wildly popular syndicated radio personality / TV talk show host / New York Times best-selling author and highly influential African-American leader, Michael Baisden, tackles the vastly different and often confusing ideas of what a relationship means to men and women, while uncovering the complex female perspective with humor, grace and a very real desire to figure it all out.
DO WOMEN KNOW WHAT THEY WANT COLLECTION: The wildly popular syndicated radio personality / TV talk show host / New York Times best-selling author and highly influential African-American leader, Michael Baisden, tackles the vastly different and often confusing ideas of what a relationship means to men and women, while uncovering the complex female perspective with humor, grace and a very real desire to figure it all out.
The Michael Baisden DVD Collection features Baisden’s new and provocative relationship films. The engaging and energetic host went to the streets of many locations to talk directly with women about, “what they want.” The upbeat, funny, and very candid relationship films invite conversations between women and men about relationships and its many different angles. Intriguing indeed!
Since closing the door to a violent past, quiet and thoughtful Moses Stanton everyday existence is running a small neighborhood store, and watching over his daughter who doesn’t know he exists. When a young man, Malik, comes in claiming to be a black Muslim that is doing good for the neighborhood, Moses takes him on as a partner but soon realizes that Malik is nothing but a drug dealer seeking to destroy the neighborhood and Moses’s daughter. Therefore, Moses must become the man he used to be in order to save his beloved neighborhood and his daughter.
Superstar R&B Artist Mary J. Blige on Dreamworks' The Help Movie
Proving that superstars NEVER die, Mary J. Blige was hired by a true Megatainment Super power, Dreamworks Entertainment, to record an original song on their film “The Help” which will be released in theaters on August 12, 2011.
The song, “The Living Proof,” was written and recorded by Blige especially for THE HELP after she saw a screening of the film, which takes place in 1960s-era Mississippi and chronicles the journey of three very different women who come together and embark on a secret writing project that breaks societal rules and puts them all at risk. “The beautiful thing about these women is that they were very smart,” says Blige. “They chose to walk in love and forgiveness.”
The film really celebrates the courage to inspire change, “To speak to so many women with this song means a lot to me,” says Blige. “I wanted to be involved with this film, because I think we need to encourage each other more, we are here to tell a story.”
I became familiar with Gil Scott-Heron in 1993 while at The Upper Room in San Francisco. The Upper Room was founded and run by Rafiq Bilal, my friend Mohammed Bilal’s father. The Upper Room was a family of artist, poets, writers, black thinkers, creative folks, dancers, etc. People would recite Gil Scott-Heron and I believe he even came through The Upper Room at one point. Gil Scott-Heron was one of the greatest poets of our time. Rest in Love!
















