Screenwriting For Film & TV
June 2, 2022 2:00pm
Virtual Panel - Live on YouTube
Open to the Public
Join us for a dynamic conversation on how to navigate a screenwriting career in Film and TV. Moderated by Jamilla Webb, founder of First Fifteen, the panel will be centered on the experiences of the participants in the industry. They will share their journeys, mistakes, successes and writers room etiquette.
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Moderator
Jamila Webb
Jamila Webb is an actor and producer. She is the creator and founder of First Fifteen - a monthly reading series supporting Black and Brown writers with table reads and structured feedback from industry writers. Jamila’s worked in theater, television, and film. Notable credits include "Superstore", "Jane the Virgin", "The Office", "Extant", "Masters of Sex", "Arrested Development", "A.P. Bio", "The Comedians", "I’m Dying Up Here", and others. She’ll be on Hulu’s upcoming comedy "Reboot" and the final season of Netflix’s "Family Reunion". Jamila earned her B.A. in urban studies, followed by her M.F.A. in acting at American Conservatory Theater. She resides in Los Angeles, where she loves to organize game nights with friends, cheer on LeBron, Serena, and the St. Louis Cardinals, and find new bike paths to explore.
Speakers
KD Dávila
Kristen "K.D." Dávila is a Mexican-American screenwriter from Los Angeles. After graduating with a degree in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University, she earned her MFA in Writing for Screen and Television from USC's School of Cinematic Arts. She was a Universal Pictures Emerging Writers Fellow, and a Film Independent Project Involve Fellow. While at Film Independent, she wrote the short "Emergency", which won Best Narrative Short at SXSW 2018, and the Special Jury Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. It will be released on Amazon.
Rochee Jeffrey
Rochée Jeffrey is a graduate of Howard University and a writer/director/performer who hails originally from Jamaica. As a television writer, her credits include Golden Globe-nominated comedy series SMILF (Showtime), Woke (Hulu), Bigger (BET+), Santa Inc. (HBO Max) and co-executive producer of Grown-ish (Freeform). On the film side, her award-winning, Oscar-qualifying short film Suitable was a finalist in the American Black Film Festival HBO Competition and premiered on HBO in February 2019. Rochée also wrote and directed Mr. Talented, a short film which premiered as a part of the 2018 Project Involve Showcase at the Directors Guild of America.
She was one of 7 directors selected for the 2018/2019 Viacom Emerging Directors Program. She was a 2019 IFP-Blackhouse Multicultural Producers Lab Fellow, sponsored by HBO, and one of Moviemaker Magazine’s 2019 Screenwriters To Watch. Her feature directorial debut Not Your Average Queen was selected for the 2021 Film Independent Screenwriting Lab and the 2021 WIF/Sundance Financing Intensive. She serves as a producer and writer on the feature film Throw it Back and Make it Clap For Trudy Jones starring Tiffany Haddish (produced by Paul Feig/Feigco). She has an adult animated series executive produced by Lizzo set up at Tomorrow Studios and Apple TV+. She also has a narrative comedy podcast greenlit by Audible and produced by Broadway Video. Rochée recently directed an independent television pilot starring David Arquette. She’s represented by UTA and Rain Management Group.
Ben Smith
Ben is a TV writer from Lexington, MA. Writing wasn't always the plan. First it was 'professional basketball player' (too short), then 'doctor' (too hard), then 'diplomat' (took a bad class in college and moved on, perhaps too quickly), and finally 'perpetual graduate student' (too expensive). Writing and comedy were always passions though -- he just didn't realize they could be combined into an actual job until mid-college. Since moving to LA in 2012, he's worked on a range of shows, spanning network, cable, and streaming. Most recently he served as a Co-EP on Hulu's Only Murders In The Building. He's also written and directed a short film, Meet Cute. Outside of writing, Ben enjoys rock climbing, sports, role-playing games, and relaxing with his girlfriend and their two cats (Fox and Scully).
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