WRITER / DIRECTOR / PRODUCER

Felicia Pride is a TV writer / producer and an award-winning filmmaker. She wrote on Ava DuVernay's QUEEN SUGAR and was most recently a producer on GREY’S ANATOMY. She’s currently developing shows with Amazon, Netflix, and FX. In film, she’s the writer and executive producer of REALLY LOVE, produced by MACRO, which debuted on Netflix and became a Top Ten Movie on the platform. And she’s sold features to Universal, Sony, and AGC Studios. She made her directorial debut with tender, a short film which aired on STARZ, and she is currently on the festival circuit with LOOK BACK AT IT, a proof of concept for her directorial feature debut by the same name. She founded and runs HONEY CHILE, a production company catering to Black women 40+ and is the co-host of their NAACP-nominated podcast Chile, Please.

Felicia was a Film Independent Screenwriting Lab Fellow and a graduate of NBC's Writers on the Verge program as a comedy writer. She started her writing career nearly twenty years ago as an entertainment journalist before going on to write several books, including the essay collection, The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop’s Greatest Songs. Prior to transitioning to screenwriting, she worked as a film distribution exec and an impact producer. Felicia holds an M.A. in writing from Emerson College and runs The Create Daily, a resource for underrepresented storytellers that she founded in 2012.

PRODUCER

Originally from the south suburbs of Chicago IL, Regina Hoyles is an award winning filmmaker, writer, and performer with experience in the Film/TV industry spanning over 17 years. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she received her BFA in Drama and minored in the Business of Entertainment. She is the Founder/Producer of her production company RLH Productions which serves as an umbrella to her own work as well as a resource to other emerging Black artists amplifying their voices across genres.

Her first short film ADULLAM which she wrote, produced, directed, and starred in premiered as an official selection in the 2020 Bentonville Film Festival and is now airing on REVOLT TV’s anthology series, “Short and Fresh”. The project was awarded Best Black Lens Film at the 2020 Sidewalk Film Festival as well as Best Narrative Film in the 2020 Argo’s Untold Stories. As an actor she can be featured on shows such as THE MARVELOUS MS. MAISEL (Amazon), THE CHI (Showtime), ALL RISE (OWN), And 9-1-1: LONE STAR (FOX). She is currently a writer for a new animated Disney series.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Amber Brown is a fiction novelist and screenwriter. Hailing from a small town in New Jersey, she graduated from Rider University where she studied Communications/Journalism and sat on the editorial staff for the On Fire!! Literary Journal, as well as completing multiple semesters abroad in London. Following her degree, she pursued a career in fashion and spent five years in NYC working her way up from intern to executive assistant to then managing her own popular fashion + lifestyle blog. Most recently she was a talent agent at Central Artists. Her true passion lies in telling sexy, fun stories that blend suspense and cultural commentary. Her debut novel with HarperCollins, SOMEONE HAD TO DO IT, will be out in the US and UK in December 2022.