25🙏🏾 Filmmaker 🎥 Award winning Screenwriter👨🏾💻
Oakland, CA
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Soon I'm going to be the first black man to win an Oscar for best director, just putting that out there.
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LATE NIGHTS IN OAKLAND
Feature film • Fantasy • 117 pages
Two brothers visit their estranged father in Oakland for summer break find themselves in a mythical dilemma after finding a magical unicorn unaware that it belongs to the daughter of a drug dealer. #screenpit
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@BootsRiley you should read this! I think you’d like it. It’s weird, fantastical, funny, violent and most importantly it’s Oakland.
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THE LONELINESS EPIDEMIC
Pilot Episode • Drama
A new government initiative addresses the loneliness epidemic by matching singles who must marry, after only meeting on arrangement day. If they survive a year together, they earn the “Happy Life” reward. #ScreenPit
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I’M NOT A RAPPER.
Short film • Drama • 9 pages
After a freestyle rap video goes viral, an honor student arrives bloodied to his awards banquet, where he must deliver a speech, only to be pressured into performing the very identity he’s desperate to escape. #ScreenPit
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HOUSE CALL
Short film • Horror • 12 pages
A barber making a house call using antique clippers for the first time notices that his client starts acting strange after the haircut. #ScreenPit
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THE APOTHECARY
Pilot episode • Sitcom • 34 pages
A young fast-talking comedian, replaces his late grandfather as a janitor at an old-fashioned Oakland pharmacy filled with unusual workers and chaotic customers. #ScreenPit
One of the funniest scripts you’ll read.
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SOMETHING’S OUTSIDE
Feature film • Horror • One Location
A family dinner is interrupted when a teenage girl drenched in blood comes to their front steps, claiming she was attacked by something that is now lurking outside their home in the snow of winter. #screenpit
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The FULL 14 minute short film @captainzerotas starring Angelica Ross as Oblivion and Keith David as the Depression Demon is now available on @YouTube! Check it out!
🔗piped.video/@cuttingedgeanim…
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Screenpit Sept 23rd 2026
8 am to 8 pm PST
Let's Go!!
#screenpit
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Me tryna figure out how to get on @KevOnStage radar as a director because I wanna help him make stuff
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This is INSANE! 😭
@captainzerotas is now officially an Emmy Nominated Project! 🙌🏾🏆✨
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New pilot script in the works!
This is genuinely one of the craziest ideas I’ve came up with. Can’t wait to share more soon.
The Loneliness Epidemic 🔫💍
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Re: Writers bring asked to hand the producers a budget. Um, isn’t that the producer’s job? Doesn’t the same script in the hands of Steven Spielberg or Curry Barker have a completely different budget?
A script, pitch deck, budget, proof of concept -all unpaid- to get a read?🤦🏽♀️
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Huge news for THE OPEN AIR! So honored and thrilled to share this deeply personal story has advanced to the Second Round in the 2027 Sundance Development Lab! Grateful for this nod of validation for a script that means the world to our family and so many others with Down syndrome
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So one of the things I want to bring to my set is my culture so I introduced the cast and crew to Haitian food for lunch.
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If There’s No Forever with Jean Elie and Spencer Jamison. Movie Stars!
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Michael Wright (Eddie King, Jr.).
Rest in Power. 🕊️
The Five Heartbeats
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