The Fellows

DG Brock

Title(s): Director

Director, Action/Comedy/Dramedy. WGA member. Her features have been picked up by Lions Gate, Hulu, Starz, Comedy Central, and the Sinclair Broadcast Group . Directed children’s narrative episodics for Saban Ent./Buena Vista TV Recent Directing work: Perfect Women/Mujeres Perfectives web pilot (Dances with Films, Moscow Comedy Fest) Montana Amazon Redux, feature starring Olympia Dukakis & Alison Brie premiering Austin Film Festival 2021.

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Elisa Manzini

Title(s): Playwright/Author

Comedy writer when her life was miserable, now that she’s a happy person she specialises in Dark Dramas/Psychological Thrillers. Born and raised in Italy, she’s a playwright and published author of chick lit novels. Her plays have been produced in Los Angeles, Chicago, Berlin. Her pilot “The Theory of Moral Relativity” was second rounder at the Austin Film Festival, finalist at Berlin Lift-Off and semifinalist at WeScreenplay Diverse Voices.

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Iram Parveen Bilal

Title(s): Writer/Director

Director, 1 hour Drama, Crime/Thriller/Family Drama. Raised in Nigeria, Pakistan, Environmental Science Engineer turned filmmaker. SXSW 2020 competition feature I’LL MEET YOU THERE, directed 3 features. Created two TV shows being actively pitched. Hired to create hip hop dance drama for Emmy Award Winning Producers of NETFLIX’s DELHI CRIME. Attached to direct ONE OF A KIND, a Cannes Cinefondation feature film.

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Jenn Page

Title(s): Director/Producer
Next Level Initiative Director

Jenn Page is an accomplished feature and series director who was selected by Take The Lead as one of the “50 Women Who Can Change The World in Media & Entertainment.” She has filmed projects for/with internationally known brands and artists including Marvel’s Agents of Shield, The Voice, The Mindy Project, Blackmagic Design, Panic at the Disco, Weezer, Billy Ray Cyrus, Wolfmother, Estee Lauder, and Hans Zimmer. Her work includes the award-winning comedy musical feature film Waiting in the Wings starring Lee Meriwether and Shirley Jones, the award-winning musical comedy series My Two Black Girlfriends, the award-winning dramatic rock opera The Breakout, and the International Academy of Web Television’s live awards show hosted by Tony award-winner Roger Bart. Her latest flim Playing with Beethoven, a feature film starring Kadeem Hardison and Shannon Elizabeth, releases in theatres November 2021.

Jenn took on the role of Executive Director of the Blackmagic Collective in 2020 to help the Collective grow initiatives that would help spotlight and serve underrepresented talent both behind and in front of the camera.

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Kate Rees Davies

Title(s): Director

Award winning Director, Comedy/Thriller/PeriodDrama. Born in Wales, adventurer turned filmmaker. Feature Film Altered Perception (Jon Huertas-This is Us) had an AMC theatrical release in the US, now on Amazon. Short Films: The Vanished and Sticks & Stones distributed by Sony TV. Teaches directing at UCLA.

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Sarah J Eagen

Title(s): TV Writer

TV Writer, ½ hr comedies & 1 hr dramedies (Medical/Science, Geek Culture, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Action Adventure). Staffed on a kid’s educational show in the spring/summer of 2021, where she wrote 6 episodes for the former president of Marvel TV, Eric S. Rollman. Neuroscience/Genetics researcher and SAG-AFTRA actor on THE BIG BANG THEORY. Head writer on sci-fi audio drama anthology podcast — THE VEIL for Voxx Studios. Top 6% NBC WoTV & Humanitas NEW VOICES Semifinalist. Head of WeScreenplay, where she runs the screenwriting labs, industry events, and personally mentors writers to help them get staffed and repped.

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Sharon Everitt

Title(s): Writer/Director

Writer/Director, Comedy/Action/Sci-Fi. 3 time Emmy nominee. Directed over 125 episodes of television including NBC’s World of Dance, NBC’s A Little Late with Lilly Singh, Hulu’s Family Style, Comedy Central’s The High Court and Ava DuVernay’s upcoming series One Perfect Shot on HBO Max. Recent festival projects: Polybius (sci-fi short / Fantastic Fest & Hollyshorts) and Brentwood (musical comedy short / Cinequest, Mill Valley & Seriesfest) with Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton & Peri Gilpin.

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Soma Helmi

Title(s): Director

Director, Drama/Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Action. Born in Bali, mixed Indonesian. Web programmer/designer turned commercial director turned filmmaker. Directed 17 short films and multiple web series. Directed 2 seasons of Snapchat Original’s DEAD GIRLS DETECTIVE AGENCY. Attached to direct a thriller feature.

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“I was lucky enough to be selected by BMC to be part of Future Women of TV 2020 and that saved my life during the pandemic. Thanks to the diversity program, I found a group of resilient writers and directors and together we met with showrunners, producers, directors and execs we would have never met otherwise. I feel lucky to have been asked back to further my career goals in the Next Level Initiative. As a creative, and in my case an immigrant, it’s so important to feel supported and BMC truly supports their members.” – Elisa Manzini, Writer

“The Blackmagic Collective Future Women of TV and Next Level initiatives have given me more industry access than I ever could’ve imagined. From meeting with showrunners and development execs, practicing my elevator pitch, and expanding my network of working professionals, it has been a dream!” – Sarah J. Eagen, Writer/Actor

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