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Zelie Dember-Slack has been accepted into the Diversity Fellowship Program at NATPE’s LATV Festival. Congratulation Zelie, we know you do well in the program and it will take you to the next level. Bridgett Lawrence & Kimberly Allen were both asked into the Writer’s Room as finalists in the selection of writers to join Tyler Perry’s “House of Payne”. This is a direct result of Kellie Griffin’s visit to OBS and call for submissions. And as a result of the writer’s room participation Bridgett Lawrence has been asked to submit a script for an episode! Way to go Bridgett! We are so proud of our OBS members. Keep writing, keep submitting, keep participating in those writer’s groups, keep submitting to Script Development… keep, writing, and writing, and writing it can happen for you! Former OBS Vice President Eric Haywood is the writer of television movie "Relative Stranger" which stars Eriq LaSalle, Cicely Tyson, and Michael Beach. Read more... There are OBS Members that are making news at this year's Hollywood Black Film Festival. Our own Corey Moore is one of the finalists! -- HBFF Recognizes Storyteller Competition Finalists - The competition in this year's contest was a fight to the finish! As a result of the all out battle for the top spot, four storytellers will be recognized for their achievement in writing. This year, there is a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finisher, with a 4th writer receiving an honorable mention. They all find out how they ranked at the Filmmakers and Storytellers Awards Brunch on Sunday, June 8th.
MUDDY WATERS by Corey Moore of Los Angeles, CA Q is an OBS Member in London and his film "Deadmeat" will premiere on June 7th @ 9:15 PM at the HBFF. This film has also been selected to screen at the London Film Festival. Kathryn Taylor is an OBS Member and her short was accepted by the HBFF & The Martha Vinyard Black Film Festival. Members making news in other arenas are:
Our own Judge Patti Titus
is being honored. Join me in congratulating Judge Titus as being
selected one of the honorees @ the 10th Annual Watts South Los Angeles
Community Law Day Awards Gala "Celebrating Everyday Heroes Who Use
Their Lives to Change The World!" On May
23, 2008 - 10th Annual Watts South Los Angeles Keep up the good work OBS and let us know when you have great things happening in your writing career. -- Jennifer Williams, OBS President
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2008 FOX Writer's Initiative Open for Submissions April 1 to July 3, 2008
Writer’s Initiative Past Results... In the 2006-07 season, 87% of FOX Broadcasting Company (FBC) series had at least one diverse writer on staff, continuing to increase each year (80% in '04-'05).
In the 2006-07 season, we employed 8 Story Editors on FBC series whose first jobs were as Staff Writers under the Fox Diversity program.
FOR GUIDELINES Go to Click on CREATIVE then FOX Writer’s Initiative
Fox DIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT
May 30, 2008 - NATPE's LATV Festival Diversity Fellowship Program
Special OBS Congratulations to Michael Ajawe for being named a HBFF Storyteller Finalist for 419 by Michael Ajakwe of Los Angeles, CA -- Third World Internet scammer tricks an unsuspecting, lonely White American male into falling in love with his Internet alter-ego - a beautiful Nigerian princess - and then convinces the dupe to bring her/him to the United States. It's about the American dream and how some people will do anything to live it. It's "Coming to America" meets "Trading Places". |
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