Screenwriter's Rant Room Hilliard Guess

In this episode, Hilliard chopped it up with Blue Monday Productions – Breakthrough Artist Award Alumni -- Umar White and Kobie Kiambu. These two writer/filmmakers hail from D.C and Maryland and are following their dreams on their journey to become showrunners. We go deep into their intense media backgrounds, meeting at college, making films, Umar becoming an editor -- Kobie working his way up in post, and their desire to relocate to Hollywood and follow their passion.

We go into how Umar moved to LA, quickly met showrunner Ben Watkins when he was on a panel and through some persistence, was encouraged to enter Ben’s Blue Monday Productions Breakthrough Artist Program. The program gives artists unfiltered access to the company for three months. Over those three months artists develop their talent while engrossing themselves in whatever part of the industry interests them… The partnership extends beyond the three months and continues to mentor and foster the artists by doing everything in their ability to accelerate their careers…

Soon after, Kobie also got into the program (while still living in Maryland), and as they say, the rest is history.

Tune in for this don’t miss episode y’all. So much inspiring game dropped throughout that you won’t want to miss!


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In this episode, Hilliard sat down with indie writer/producer Craig T. Williams while he's on his short trip to LA from NY -- they chopped it up about his journey, growing up in the Bronx New York, traveling the world, landing roles in indie films, producing over a hundred projects, using unorthodox methods of fundraising, hitting the festival circuit, realizing that sometimes you can make too many short films, selling yourself in showrunner meetings, building relationships on Clubhouse and so much more!



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In this episode, Hilliard and Chris & Alex Derrick sat down with actor-writer-director Keith Powell (TOOFER on 30 Rock) to talk about his crazy journey growing up in Philly with a house filled with women, to acting/directing in theater in NY, to landing his career job on hit series 30 Rock for 7 years, to directing at least one short film a year and his amazing pivot to directing episodic television (Interview With a Vampire, Dickinson, A Holiday in Harlem etc) while continuing to land acting roles in major shows and films. We also talk a lot about Keith's directing for television, shadowing on set, expectations of the TV director, working on different kinds of shows, the director’s shooting schedule and so much more!


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In this ep Hilliard sat down with big bro, writer-producer-author Gary Goldstein to talk about the making of his new book "The Mother I Never Had" which is currently at #4 on Kindle and #6 on Paperback Amazon.com!

We also talk about tips on writing MOW's (Hallmark and Lifetime) sustaining a long, successful career writing popular Holiday Films and Romantic Comedies that play on networks where writers can earn a nice living! We talk about adapting his plays playwright and ways to pivot later in your career and so much more!

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In this episode, Hilliard sat down with writing team and married couple -- Dijorn Moss & Trinea Moss! We talked about their journey thus far, living in the Bay Area, their hilarious "movie meet", locating to LA and becoming a writing team, submitting to programs, writing specs and pilots, writing genre, studying with the some of the greats, their writers’ group “Scribes 4 Fries”, mentorship with super dope EP Niceole Levi and so much more!


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In this episode, Hilliard & Chris sit down with Alex Derrick and Clarlin “M.A.C.A” Clark. Yes, that’s right! Chris’ younger brother, a filmmaker and cinematographer in his own right! Alex and M.A.C.A. discuss their most recent collaboration - TWO TO TANGO, a horror short, that you can see on YouTube!

This episode is full of insights on how to have a successful collaboration with producing low-budget projects to extend your brand and developing content outside of the Hollywood system as a means to get into the system.

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TWO TO TANGO on YouTube

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Pixelator.biz

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