Producing a Short Film with Felicia Pride

Felicia Pride is a writer and award-winning filmmaker. She wrote on two seasons of Ava DuVernay's "Queen Sugar" and currently writes on "Grey's Anatomy." Prior, she developed a drama pilot, a book adaptation, with NBCUniversal and recently sold a pilot to 20th Century FOX. She sold the erotic romance Deeper to Universal Pictures and is the co-writer and executive producer of the film Really Love, produced by MACRO, which won a Special Jury Prize at SXSW. She recently made her directorial debut with tender, a short film she also wrote, which won a Lionsgate / STARZ award at BlackStar Film Festival and is currently airing on STARZ. Felicia was a Film Independent Screenwriting Lab Fellow and a graduate of NBC's Writers on the Verge program as a comedy writer. Previously, she worked as a film distribution executive and an impact producer, and is the author of six books, including "The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop's Greatest Songs." 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.