Exclusive: The Black List and Google today revealed the four writers who were selected as the inaugural Black List x YouTube Originals Black Voices Creator Fellows. The recipients are Beverly Chukwu, Shannon Hawkins, Brandon Hines, and Duchant Johnson. More information about the Fellows is below.
The Black Voices Fellowship provides financial grants and creative support to writers in developing proofs of concept for a television show pitch. Each Fellow will receive $40,000 each for the purpose of producing a proof of concept and developing a pitch for their television series that authentically reflects the Black experience.
The Black List and Google also pair each fellowship recipient with one showrunner mentor and two additional writer mentors. This year’s showrunner mentors are Monica Owusu-Breen (Alias), Owen Smith (Blask-ish), Aaron Rashaan Thomas (Friday Night Lights), and Larry Wilmore (Insecure). Additional writer mentors included Kay Oyegun (This Is Us), Karen Joseph Adcock (The Bear...
The Black Voices Fellowship provides financial grants and creative support to writers in developing proofs of concept for a television show pitch. Each Fellow will receive $40,000 each for the purpose of producing a proof of concept and developing a pitch for their television series that authentically reflects the Black experience.
The Black List and Google also pair each fellowship recipient with one showrunner mentor and two additional writer mentors. This year’s showrunner mentors are Monica Owusu-Breen (Alias), Owen Smith (Blask-ish), Aaron Rashaan Thomas (Friday Night Lights), and Larry Wilmore (Insecure). Additional writer mentors included Kay Oyegun (This Is Us), Karen Joseph Adcock (The Bear...
- 2/9/2024
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Producer's 'whole new explosion' includes DJing and writing a rock record for Weezer.
By Shaheem Reid
Jermaine Dupri
Photo: Arnold Turner/WireImage
Jermaine Dupri has been DJing for decades, but over the past few years, he's decided to go public with his love for the turntables. His '80s vs. '90s DJ battles at Atlanta club Studio 72 always have the crowd moving, and for the past several months, party promoters have been booking Jd to keep their dance floors packed.
"DJing, I'm really trying to make people understand what I actually do," Dupri said last week via phone from Atlanta. "I don't think people take DJing seriously, like how they take a drummer seriously or playing guitar seriously. When you see Lil Wayne with the guitar, he's really one to play guitar. He plays it, and he's getting better and better. He really wants everyone to know he plays guitar.
By Shaheem Reid
Jermaine Dupri
Photo: Arnold Turner/WireImage
Jermaine Dupri has been DJing for decades, but over the past few years, he's decided to go public with his love for the turntables. His '80s vs. '90s DJ battles at Atlanta club Studio 72 always have the crowd moving, and for the past several months, party promoters have been booking Jd to keep their dance floors packed.
"DJing, I'm really trying to make people understand what I actually do," Dupri said last week via phone from Atlanta. "I don't think people take DJing seriously, like how they take a drummer seriously or playing guitar seriously. When you see Lil Wayne with the guitar, he's really one to play guitar. He plays it, and he's getting better and better. He really wants everyone to know he plays guitar.
- 1/25/2010
- MTV Music News
Don't expect to see the Wraith, the Asgard or any other humanoid aliens from Stargate Sg-1 or Stargate Atlantis turning up in the new Stargate series, Sgu: Stargate Universe. Brad Wright, the executive producer and co-creator of Syfy's new show, told Canada.com that the extraterrestrials in the show won't look just like humans hiding behind latex masks.
"One thing we decided, in our pursuit of realism, was to step away from rubber-faced, English-speaking aliens, and you will see none of those in the new show," Wright said. "We will run into aliens. They're just not going to be human, latex-faced, English-speaking aliens."
The show will also have less "techno-babble" and put more emphasis on the characters than the two series that preceded it, according to Wright.
"When we were conceiving the idea for this, we definitely felt that, in some ways, Atlantis and Sg-1 had become a little bit too far into their mythologies,...
"One thing we decided, in our pursuit of realism, was to step away from rubber-faced, English-speaking aliens, and you will see none of those in the new show," Wright said. "We will run into aliens. They're just not going to be human, latex-faced, English-speaking aliens."
The show will also have less "techno-babble" and put more emphasis on the characters than the two series that preceded it, according to Wright.
"When we were conceiving the idea for this, we definitely felt that, in some ways, Atlantis and Sg-1 had become a little bit too far into their mythologies,...
- 8/27/2009
- CinemaSpy
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