I'm a Jamaican American drama writer raised between Jamaica and the deep south. I love writing messy complicated WOC and their messier relationships. Its even better if they punch and kick things. 2020 Sundance Episodic finalist and I'm currently repped.
#WGAStaffingBoost
How about a
#WGAStaffingBoost
this fine Friday? You know the drill. Pitch yourselves and why you’d be an asset to a writers room and I’ll boost you! Let’s go!
I really need more Americans to grasp that this is our future if we do not get serious about stopping these billionaires and AI mfs with data centers that are depleting our water supply.
People should absolutely be concerned about what's going on with Wells Fargo and Wendy Williams. Wendy went to Wells Fargo and said I'm closing my accts cause I think you're colluding w/ my business manager to steal from me. Instead of investigating the claims... 1
Wells Fargo SUED to gain financial conservatorship over her BY CALLING HER CRAZY and won! THAT IS FUCKING CRAZY. AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THE REST OF US!?!? .... 2
What legal precedent is that setting? This shit mad serious and has even scarier than Britneys stuff and it seems no one cares and we should care. We should care.
When this vid gets posted ppl are like COKE, but I think this a clear example of someone stole the dance from the juke joint, but they don't know how to do the dance so now everyone looks stupid.
The fact that Rachel Dolezal and Jessica Krug were able to prosper as much as they did with no pushback should confirm everything dark skin black women say about colorism. But y'all will continue to stay out here stupid.
There's a part of this that feels like the next step in a centuries long quest of white people. The ability to have control and possess Blackness without Black people.
Humor is a sign of intelligence, so I asked Claude-Sonnet-3.5 to absolutely COOK GPT-4o.
Then I put the results into a
@DaveChappelle
deepfake.
The result is damn jarring... See for yourself:
SAG absolutely needs to go on strike cause it was wild to watch my friend on Inventing Anna and a month later they were crowd funding to avoid homelessness.
@GeauxGabrielle
Also they used to sell homes you could assemble yourself. Like IKEA, they would label all the parts and send directions. It allowed a lot of black people to be home owners for the first time post reconstruction.
I really worry about black work in the digital age, because so much of the preservation of black images is informal done by black ppl who value art. Claudine isn't anywhere to rent but it's available in it entirety on YouTube.
CLAUDINE, directed by Bronx-born blacklisted director John Berry, was released 50 years ago today. The cast: Diahann Carroll (nominated for an Oscar), James Earl Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Tamu Blackwell, and Roxie Roker. Music by Curtis Mayfield.
@abbygov
@theeashleyray
Yes but its also an indication that they have absolutely no clue what people outside of their class status are like or what resonates with them.
Since this is blowing up a bit. I'm a screenwriter. Hire me. An actual black woman with two black parents. I'm good at character driven stories, period, and genre. I have representation and everything. And Sundance thought my script was real cute.
When Taraji P Henson says, "if I can't help the ones coming up behind me, then what's the point?" I felt that in the deepest part of me. Cause it's one thing to be broke but if you're broke and you're not making a difference... Whew.
Hit tweet. Im muting because the AI and Elon acolytes have found it, which idk your fav is a loser. As per always I am available for staffing! Mgmt in bio. Billionaires don't care about you but your community does. In these times please start with kindness. We are all we've got.
Stuff like making the video and directors commentary on dvds were low key my first education in filmmaking and we're worse for not having them anymore.
Kyla Pratt is a generational talent. She literally appeared on every show that I watched as a kid. The Parent ‘Hood, Family Matters, Smart Guy, Moesha, So Weird, Sister Sister, The Parkers, Veronica Mars, and Lizzie McGuire.
Hollywood must really hate money because everyday another beloved, endlessly marketable actor (Daniel Kaluuya, Paul Mescal, Harry Potter himself) comes out explicitly saying they want to do a rom com (with a beloved Black actress we'd all go see as their lead) and still nothing.
It's Taylor Swift syndrome. American WW have deep Taylor Swift syndrome. You have ALL the things and then one person goes "meh" and suddenly YOU ARE A VICTIM. NO ONE HAS WORKED AS HARD AS YOU! YOU ARE THE N***ER OF THE WORLD!
Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith, writers of ‘Legally Blonde,’ ‘She’s The Man,’ ‘The House Bunny,’ and ‘Ella Enchanted’ set to write romantic comedy ‘I Do… Not’ for Amazon Studios and Di Bonaventura Pictures.
The film follows a woman who gets the chance to stop her own wedding.
One thing about Dua, she gon take the notes and improve. And that's the stuff that greats are made of. Cause this is heads and tails above the Grammy performance.
It's the way this is also connected with the war on women's bodies, queer ppls bodies, it was never going to stop with us. This is what we keep trying to explain to yall.
A Texas judge has ruled that a school district can force Darryl George to cut his natural locs, despite the state’s CROWN Act that prohibits hairstyle discrimination. This is anti-Blackness in a country that they keep telling us has never been racist.
Cate Blanchett says it often feels like "Groundhog Day" when she walks onto a film set in terms of female representation.
"There's 50 people on set and there's three women. It's like, when is this going to deeply, profoundly shift?"
Ok, not necessarily a hit tweet but definitely charting, so....
I'm available for staffing! I'm a research focused drama writer who likes to write stories about women.
I also have some killer pitches for your pod. I've been described as someone with endless ideas!
When Maren Morris won the CMA for Female Vocalist of the Year and used her acceptance speech to specifically highlight all the black female country singers that deserve to be heard in a room full of her peers. This is how you use a platform!
I always think about that news report where a pharmacist spoke under anonymity and said that alot of congress is filling prescriptions for dementia and alzheimers meds.
I wanna say I was never tricked. When ppl would proudly say it's vegan leather I would respond with its plastic. To which, they would look at me with shock SHOCK
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled 3-0 in favor of Apple, Dell, Microsoft, Tesla and Google parent Alphabet, rejecting the lawsuit by the plaintiffs, which included former child miners from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
“I remember another actress who said something like, 'Well, I'm not like a dumb cheerleader movie [star]' or something. And her saying that made me feel so terrible about myself.” – Kirsten Dunst to
@THR
's Awards Chatter
Kirsten is now an Oscar nominated actress!
I think you can apply this to everything that's happening in the country rn. Civil rights are not guaranteed. Living wages are not guaranteed. A stable climate and clean air is not guaranteed. We have to collectively fight for these things.
Another thing that's sad about the decline of TV is all the great TV actors who have been pushed aside for film stars who don't necessarily have the stamina to be in the medium.
It's there because someone had a physical copy and uploaded it. This is the case with so many smaller black films. What happens in the future when we don't have those physical copies of things being made now to upload?
Bill Gates himself has one of biggest carbon footprints of any human being in world. He lives in 66,000 square foot mansion with 24 bathrooms that is worth $145 million, which he calls (seriously) “Xanadu 2.0” It was built using half a million wood logs from 500 year old trees.
Today I learned about a 1940 "race film" called BROKEN STRINGS, directed by Bernard B. Ray and starring Clarence Muse, about a classical violinist who must change his life after a devastating car accident.
It's streaming on
@tubi
. Tubi is a whole ass film studies course.
I don't mean to be annoying but the people w/ the "useless" humanities degrees. Who read studies and understood political and social realities said this LONG ago.
I read an article about the “end of the subsidized millennial lifestyle” wherein it discussed the fact that platforms such as Uber, Lyft, DoorDash etc were only cheap due to being subsidized by investors + favorable market conditions, but now those platforms need to turn a profit
I also think it's interesting that the show engages with race but not in a way actually mattered. Like the bullying Kevin bestows on Randall is absolutely racial and show just pretends its not.
It's also a great example of how to take a bunch of references and make them unique. Because it's a hard days night, the music man, and fosse all in 2/3 minutes.
This is also why, overtly political art from rich white people lacks heart or punch because they've simply never lived a reality where policies affect them.
In Jamaica homes are built from concrete and steel in order to withstand the climate and I could never understand why US houses in coastal cities never did the same.
If avatar airbender has proved anything it's shown the people that animation and animators are special and specific. There is something lost when you work outside the medium.
@nydiasimone
@OgLakyn
I think you might be referencing last king of Scotland, which she tanned. Also if you diff between playing idi amin's wife and one of the most celebrated and beloved figures of the 20th century no one here can help you.
Question to writers. When there's like a rich person and a poor person and the poor person is trying to achieve a goal that requires money. Why is it that you always have the poor person respond, "I don't need your charity" Whats your investment in perpetuating this myth?
Someone
#onhere
already said this but I'll reiterate. It's easy to say fuck those movie people who don't do real jobs. But the situation we are in as writers is the same situation that is affecting every single American industry right now.
The sold streaming to us as a way to have all of our favorite shows & films with a click of a button. But now they’re taking them off platforms. They told us more diverse storytelling could have a place on streaming. Now your show gets 6 episodes and cancel after one season.
Over three months after being convicted of reckless assault and harassment, Jonathan Majors was sentenced this morning by a New York judge to participate a domestic violence treatment program