Are you wondering how and when to take your script into production; particularly in light of the continued COVID pandemic? This is a question only you can answer, based on your comfort level, capabilities as a producer and resources. To help with your assessment, join us for a chat with Producer and Certified COVID Safety Officer Okema T. Moore, as she shares production protocols and union rules that all film productions, large and small, should be aware of and implement if they decide to proceed with filming. During the chat Okema will share her experience on set and on location throughout the pandemic, as a producer/director and CCO respectively, along with best practices and budgeting ideas. The talk will be interactive, with a Q&A at the end. Like this event? Check out other upcoming events and member opportunities.
Okema T. Moore is an actress, producer, writer, and director. She most recently completed producing – during the pandemic – the PBS/American Masters docu-series Unladylike2020 and producing/directing a feature-length documentary for network television. As a regional EMMY nominee and an alum of the Tribeca Film Festival, Okema has produced and directed a number of projects ranging from web series – like 2019 ABFF winner Little Apple – to branded content for Netflix, Nickelodeon, DreamWorks and FOX. She has also produced shows for the Food Network, TLC and OWN. Okema is a Certified COVID Compliance Officer for clients that include Netflix, Spike Lee’s 40 Acres & a Mule, NY’s Governor Cuomo and the 2020 Gotham Awards.
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FILM FAM SPRING ’21 MIXER
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Announcing the official FILM FAM SPRING ’21 MIXER going down on Tuesday 2/9!
In the spirit of celebration and collaboration, your favorite organizations are coming together to break virtual bread, toast and most importantly BUILD! Build on projects, ideas and opportunities to work together this Spring and Summer! In the house we’ll have the Black TV & Film Collective + Black Film Space + Hue You Know + Brown Girls Doc Mafia ALL in ONE virtual networking session.
We’ll start with ICE BREAKERS in the room so everyone can be introduced, then hop into BREAKOUT rooms where each room will have to work together to answer questions for PRIZES like FINAL DRAFT software, COMPLIMENTARY BTFC and BFS memberships, and private one-on-one consults with industry producers.
While we’d MUCH rather do this event in person, we’re making it work with what we have which is technology, members who are still planning work and willing hearts and minds. No where else in NYC we’d rather be on 1/22 than building and bonding with our film family. PS. Don’t forget to have your pitches! We firmly believe that you need more than money to make work, what you truly need is friends. We can’t help you with your projects if we don’t know about them. Together we go further.
Partnering Organizations
The event is free but RSVP required. Space is limited. RSVP on EVENTBRITE below.
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Series: Legal Empowerment for Filmmakers
The Black TV & Film Collective and The Filmmakers Legal Clinic have partnered on a monthly series of Know Your Rights: Legal Empowerment for Filmmakers series. First up: a Feb 18th conversation on the legal considerations of producing during COVID-19. We’re talking, Return-to-Work Agreements, contracting in a pandemic and much more.
The team from the Filmmakers Legal Clinic will share information and answer questions about legal considerations you need to move forward. Additional conversations in the series will happen in March and April! Stay tuned for more info on the series of legal empowerment sessions for our members.
About The Filmmakers Legal Clinic
The Filmmakers Legal Clinic (formerly the Indie Film Clinic) is a not-for-profit clinical program that provides free pro bono legal services to filmmakers producing narrative and documentary films and artists providing services in film.
Fair Use and Copyrights: Legal Empowerment for Filmmakers
The Black TV & Film Collective and The Filmmakers Legal Clinic have partnered on a monthly series of Know Your Rights: Legal Empowerment for Filmmakers series. Next up: a Mar 18th conversation on Fair Use and How to Legally Use Copyrighted Materials.
Fair use is a term that gets thrown around a great deal, but what exactly does it mean and how can you leverage it to make your life easier as a filmmaker? It is sometimes impossible not to capture trademarked or copy-written material content within the frame, so what’s a filmmaker to do? Don’t worry, the team from the Filmmakers Legal Clinic will be in the house.
During this chat they will break down exactly what fair use entails and when and how explicit permission is or is not required from copyright owners. Don’t miss this opportunity to work smarter not harder and meet the knowledgeable team from the Filmmakers Legal Clinic.
Hope to see you there!
Additional conversations in the series will happen in April! Stay tuned for more info on the series of legal empowerment sessions for our members.
About The Filmmakers Legal Clinic
The Filmmakers Legal Clinic (formerly the Indie Film Clinic) is a not-for-profit clinical program that provides free pro bono legal services to filmmakers producing narrative and documentary films and artists providing services in film.
About the Black TV & Film Collective
The Black TV & Film Collective is a 501c3 development and production hub with a simple mission: to create career advancing opportunities for Black and African Descent artists to achieve financial sustainability within the entertainment industry.
We provide critical production support enabling members to build a strong body of work, supplemented by workshops and labs focused on craft development and networking events to foster relationship building.
There is power in numbers and together there is unlimited potential in what we can achieve.
Check out the Black TV & Film Collective event calendar!
Music Licensing: Legal Empowerment for Filmmakers
The Black TV & Film Collective and The Filmmakers Legal partnered on a monthly series of Know Your Rights: Legal Empowerment for Filmmakers. Next up: an April 15th conversation on Music Licensing For Films.
Music is a necessary component in films. Whether it’s a well-known artist or your friend’s music produced in his basement, the proper licensing contracts are required. Get a better understanding of synchronization and master use agreements. Courtesy of the team from the Filmmakers Legal Clinic.
During this chat they will break down exactly what the necessary agreements and terms are, when they should be used, and how. Don’t miss this opportunity to work smarter not harder and meet the knowledgeable team from the Filmmakers Legal Clinic.
Hope to see you there
Previous conversations in the series happened in February and March! If you missed those, visit our Event Calendar for repeats.
The Filmmakers Legal Clinic (formerly the Indie Film Clinic) is a not-for-profit clinical program that provides free pro bono legal services to filmmakers producing narrative and documentary films and artists providing services in film.
About the Black TV & Film Collective
The Black TV & Film Collective is a 501c3 development and production hub with a simple mission: to create career advancing opportunities for Black and African Descent artists to achieve financial sustainability within the entertainment industry.
We provide critical production support enabling members to build a strong body of work, supplemented by workshops and labs focused on craft development and networking events to foster relationship building.
There is power in numbers and together there is unlimited potential in what we can achieve.
Check out the Black TV & Film Collective event calendar!
Speakers Series feat. Effie T. Brown, CEO “Gamechanger Films”
We have a true pioneer and renaissance woman Effie T. Brown in the (virtual) house on April 10th at 12 PM ET to chat with us about her journey in becoming a filmmaker. She’ll also dive into the trials and tribulations she encountered and how they helped shape her career to where it is now.
Effie has produced some of our favorite films and projects from Dear White People to Lee Daniels’ STAR on Fox. Her achievements led to her most recently being named CEO Of Gamechanger Films which launched in 2013 as the first film fund for women filmmakers.
Under Effie’s leadership – this fund has expanded to include projects by people of color for people of color, LGBTQ+ stories and, people with disabilities.
Excited about this event? Check out other events and member opportunities.
Effie T. Brown is the CEO of Gamechanger Films, which launched in 2013 as the first film fund for women filmmakers and now under Brown’s leadership includes projects by and about people of color, LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities as well as its expansion into television and digital content. Brown is also an award-winning film, television, and digital producer known for her highly acclaimed, multi-platform repertoire as well as championing inclusion and diversity in Hollywood, both behind and in front of the camera. Brown has produced several critically acclaimed films and award-winning projects including Real Women Have Curves (directed by Patricia Cardosa), Dear White People (2015 Independent Spirit Awards Best First Screenplay), HBO’s Project Greenlight (Executive Produced by Matt Damon & Ben Affleck), among several others. Brown also served as an executive producer on Lee Daniels’ STAR on FOX and Disney Channel’s Zombies. Prior to Gamechanger, Brown founded Duly Noted Inc., a company dedicated to ground-breaking narratives that use the genre to challenge and advance our culture in a disruptive way. Brown’s dream is to change the world through film and TV – celebrating our differences while bringing us all closer together.
