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To the rest of the world, the entertainment industry is all glitz and glamour. Your name in lights. Awards shows.
But if you’ve decided you want a career in the entertainment industry, your first step shouldn’t be paying L.A. rent. Thanks to our newly Zoom-enabled society, you can start your career as an actor, director, writer or working another industry gig from anywhere in the world.
I spoke with four entertainment industry experts about the best ways to get started in Hollywood without having to move to Hollywood:
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Franklin Leonard, founder and chief executive of the Black List, a network and resource for working and aspiring screenwriters.
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Tony Espinosa as Kajani Jefferson in “American Skin”
The undaunted 29th Pan African Film Festival kicked off on the last day of Black History Month and runs through March 14.
I am a big fan of the work by actor/director/writer Nate Parker, which powerfully expresses Black consciousness and militancy in movies such as 2012’s
Red Tails about the heroic Tuskegee Airmen who were antifascists before Antifa; 2007’s fact-based
The Great Debaters, where Denzel Washington played a suspected Communist and proved Blacks can excel academically; and 2016’s The Birth of a Nation, which Parker directed, co-wrote and starred in as Nat Turner, who led America’s bloodiest uprising against slavery.
How Casting Director Tracy Twinkie Byrd Found Her Voice to Direct (Guest Column)
Tracy Twinkie Byrd, provided by
Feb. 28, 2021
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Five years ago, I decided to become a 49-year-old student of Richard Lawson Studios in his PDP 60 (Professional Development Program) class. I was the oldest student in his class at the time. While studying, I learned so many things about myself and my own points of view. I also learned that I am a storyteller and how storytelling has touched my life.
Raised in a mostly white neighborhood in Brooklyn, the same neighborhood that Chris Rock’s character was bussed to on the hit show “Everybody Hates Chris,” I learned the importance of having a Black voice and how to use the compelling truth of Black History in my work. Through asking questions and seeking knowledge of self, this became a burning passion.
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