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Office Hours: Get Help On Your Project

Start 2022 off right and #MakeYourWork! Chat with BTFC Board Member and writer, director, and 2021 producer Emmy-nominated producer (UnladyLike 2020) Okema T. Moore about your project!

During Office Hours we do our best to offer insight and feedback that can help push you forward!

During BTFC Office Hours we’ll answer general production questions and provide an environment where you can get advice and feedback on your projects from industry professionals.

How can we better describe them? It’s an open door for any member who would like to just come in and ask a question. Get a second pair of eyes on a rough cut, get some help on budgets, have your script reviewed…Remember back in the day when our professors had office hours and you would just go in to ask a question or get some help? That is what these office hours are like.

Join us to talk about your projects and ideas, so that you’re better equipped to move them forward. It’s all-time well spent.

NOTE: 40-minute slots will be assigned on a first RSVP basis. A Zoom link will be sent to you 48 hours before your session. Please block out 4:00 – 6:00 PM ET on your calendar until your slot is received.

 

About Okema T. Moore

Okema T. Moore is a seasoned producer, writer, and director who started as a child actor on Sesame Street, cultivating quite a life of experiences since then. These experiences include sharing an EMMY Nomination for a PSA she AD’d, produced and voiced, premiering as a digital series producer at Tribeca Film Festival’s Tribeca N.O.W. 2019, producing the NAACP nominated doc series UNLADYLIKE2020 for PBS, and producing the American Black Film Festival 2019 Best Web Series, Little Apple. She can be seen as a hologram in Brian Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative Legacy Museum in Montgomery, AL, and in successful web series such as Makeup X Breakup and the Emmy Nominated Pillow Talk.Behind the scenes, Okema holds a BS in finance and business from Brooklyn College and a Producing Certification from NYU’s SPS. A member of the Board of Directors of the Black TV & Film Collective, Okema leads Programming.

 

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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.  

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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!


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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!


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Filmmakers Pop-Up Legal Clinic

**This opportunity is available to Members only. Please Email your BTFC Username or Associated email address for a link to the application. All applications must be received by Thursday, May 13th at 4 PM.***

 

The Black TV & Film Collective and The Filmmakers Legal Clinic at Cardozo Law partnered on a monthly series of legal empowerment for Filmmakers.  This month, we offer a Pop-Up Legal Clinic.

Are you interested in getting free legal advice to get your project off to the right start? The Filmmakers Legal Clinic at Cardozo  School of Law will run a pop-up legal clinic for BTFC  filmmakers.  The Filmmakers Legal Clinic is a not-for-profit clinical program that provides free legal services to filmmakers producing narrative and documentary films and artists providing services in film. This is a unique opportunity to meet with a student legal team in a brief, intimate setting.  Bring your legal questions on fair use, entity formation, distribution, licensing, work-for-hire agreements, and other issues.  If you’re interested in participating in this event, please fill out this application by Thursday, May 13th at 4 pm. There are a limited number of meeting times available. 

The Clinic will be held on Wednesday, May 19th at 7pm.

Please Email your BTFC Username or Associated email address for a link to the application.

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!


Our Event Calendar