NATPE has lined up its first-ever Living the Dream: A Career in Content event in partnership with the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and the NHFA (National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts).<\/p>\n
The event will be held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day\u2014Monday, January 21, 2019\u2014one day before NATPE Miami 2019 commences, at the Fontainebleau. It is designed to assist students, young professionals and others with a desire to enter the entertainment and media industries to learn more about how their dreams can become a reality.<\/p>\n
Producer, director, actor and screenwriter Tyler Perry will deliver the Keynote Address. Perry\u2019s remarks will be followed by a panel headlined by CSI: Los Angeles<\/em>\u2019s Esai Morales; showrunner for USA Network’s Queen of the South<\/em>, Benjamin Lobato; and Netflix\u2019 One Day at a Time<\/em> showrunner, Gloria Calderon Kellett, as well as other talent, executives, producers and writers who have embedded storylines of diversity in their works.<\/p>\n The final portion of the day\u2019s presentations will be followed by a Celebration of Creativity, in which three pre-selected students will present story ideas dealing with diversity live onstage to a panel of industry-leading development executives. The three budding young filmmakers will be selected from the NAACP\u2019s Hollywood Bureau film education program, which searches the country for talented young people in a variety of disciplines, and the NHFA\u2019s whose PitchDC and PitchNY programs showcase authentic and original content ideas from NHFA student scholars, alumni and associates.<\/p>\n \u201cThis will be a very special day. A day to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and to inspire and empower young people as they begin a career in entertainment and media. We are honored to be presenting this event, headlined by Tyler Perry, and in association with two of the most respected organizations in America,\u201d said JP Bommel, president and CEO of NATPE. \u201cI know that those that will attend will be enriched with greater knowledge about the opportunities that lie before them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMartin Luther King, like Cesar Chavez, spent their lives working to become the change they asked us all to become in our beloved country,\u201d said Felix Sanchez, NHFA chairman and co-founder, \u201cduring these trying times, we look to storytellers to reveal the true narrative of our nation. We applaud NATPE for its leadership to advance these principles.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cJoining forces with NATPE on Martin Luther King Jr\u2019s birthday is right in line with the efforts we put forth to bring diversity to the forefront of everyone\u2019s minds, especially in the world of entertainment,\u201d said Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of NAACP. \u201cWe are honored to bring students together to hear from one of the greatest creative and business minds of our generation in Tyler Perry, and are excited to reveal the rest of the programming, which will feature top talent and executives from television, as we draw closer to the event.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NATPE has lined up its first-ever Living the Dream: A Career in Content event in partnership with the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and the NHFA (National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1641],"class_list":["post-9025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-natpe"],"yoast_head":"\n