Tanya Kersey, Hollywood Black Film Festival Executive Director to Keynote Houston Black Film Festival & Book to Film Screenplay Search Awards Gala
Tanya Kersey is one of Hollywood's most respected and well-regarded entertainment journalists and commentator. As the founder and editor-in-chief of Black Talent News, the leading trade publication for Blacks in the entertainment industry, and the founder and executive director of the Hollywood Black Film Festival, Kersey is the most likely choice to speak during the inaugural year of the Houston Black Film Festival.
(PRWEB) February 3, 2005 -- This is the first ever Black film festival in the
fourth largest metropolis in the world. According to Rick Ferguson, Executive
Director of the Houston Film Commission, over 150 films have been shot in and
around the great filming Mecca of Houston, Texas.
Industry giants,
filmmakers, distributors, actors, actresses, directors, producers, and others as
the highly acclaimed writer producer and filmmaker, Ralph Farquar, Executive
Producer, UPN, Second Time Around, Proud Family, Moesha, Marc Hernandez with
Cresendo Entertainment Group, Dawn Carter of Fox TV, Andrea Wiley, Executive
Producer, Parkers, UPN, Kathy Busby, Sr. VP Development at CBS and others will
converge on Houston for a roundtable discussion and to review screenplays
derived from works by nationally known best-selling novelist. We hope to
generate the end product, a number of quality screenplays that will result in a
better selection of projects for filmmakers, actors and actresses as well.
Some of the noted honorees and invitees are actors, producers, Vivica A.
Fox ,Loretta Devine, LisaRaye, Ice Cube, Hill Harper, Jordan-Walker Pearlman,
Sanaa Lathan, and more. Our Book to Film honorees, are authors, Jacquelin
Thomas, Walter Mosley and J. California Cooper.
We are screening films
from such notable film companies as Fox Search Lab's "Youngster", Simmons Lathan
Media Group’s, “Industry,” "Black Theater Today: 2005," Thea -Marie Perkins, "My
Purple Fur Coat" starring Hill Harper a film by Kathy Busby, "Endangered
Species," by the Earth Conservation Corps and other documentaries, shorts and
features.
There are several panels planned including a pitch fest, on
site open casting call and more. The Page to Stage panel will be hosted by
Houston’s dynamic duo, Executive Producers, Gary Guidry & Je'Caryous Johnson
of I'm Ready Productions.
www.imreadyproductions.com. I'm Ready Productions brought us
the stage production adaptation of Michael Baisden's "Men Cry In the Dark,"
& "Maintenance Man." They are currently producing, Carl Weber's "Married
Men," & Eric Jerome Dickey's "Friends & Lovers."
We are also
planning an actors’ panel with such actors as Pierre, www.happycomic.com, "For The
Love of Money," and "Baps" and actresses, such as Cee Cee Michaela, www.ceeceemichaela.com formerly of the Hit UPN TV Show
"Girlfriends," & the upcoming movie with Monique & Vivica A. Fox, "Hair
Show."
Also on Friday, a concert with R&B recording artist, Anthony
Hamilton sponsored by Hot Ticket Entertainment, followed by an after party at
the Renaissance Hotel Greenway Plaza. A spectacular celebrity golf tournament
with well known celebrities and athletes takes place Sunday morning February
27th at Herman Golf Course.
Other highlights are the Kickoff Comedy
Showcase held at Houston IMPROV February 23rd and the February 24th opening
night reception with Sony recording artist LYFE. We are also having the
celebrity fashion show hosted two top Ebony Fashion Fair Models modeling designs
by ENYCE; a, main comedy showcase with comedians from such shows as BET Comic
view, Last Comic Standing, as well as comedic actors.
Nationally Known
best-selling authors as Mary Morrision, Gloria Malette, Pat G'Orge Walker, &
others will be on hand to sign their novels.
Other authors interested in
signing at the event or businesses interested in vendor space may contact us at
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If you have questions or need
clarification regarding any aspect of the upcoming festival, please feel free to
contact Sheba Media Group, Renee Byrd at 1-888-898-9297 ext 84.
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The
official host hotel is the Inn At the Ballpark (across the street from the
venue, Minute Maid Park)
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