Christopher C. Odom is and author and international, multi-award-winning, independent filmmaker, who has written, produced and directed feature films, television programs, documentaries, shorts, music videos, commercials and multimedia. He earned his Master of Fine Arts in Film, Television & Digital Media from UCLA. A member of the Writers Guild of America, west (WGA), former Writer’s Assistant to Dan Gordon (Celestine Prophecy, The Hurricane, Murder in the First, Passenger 57, Wyatt Earp), a former Freelance Story Analyst for Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and the former Vice-President of the Organization of Black Screenwriters (OBS), Christopher’s screenplays have garnered accolades from competitions and fellowships including The San Francisco Black Film Festival, The Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition and The Agency for the Performing Arts (APA) Marty Klein Comedy Writing Award. As a Director, Christopher’s feature films have screened in cities worldwide, including Tel Aviv, Berlin Cannes. Los Angeles and New York. As a Producer, Writer, Editor, Christopher has created promos for the nationally televised PBS series Independent Lens and original web series for LiveUniverse, featuring Cedric The Entertainer, Robin Thicke, Elton Brand and Joanna Krupa.
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Top 10 Film Festivals
This list of the Top 10 Festivals is based upon the festivals ability to discover emerging talent and provide them with national and/or international media attention. In addition, many of these festivals also function as unofficial film markets, enabling filmmakers to find distribution for their films. FULL ARTICLE http://ezinearticles.com/1167644
Top 12 Black Film Festivals
Film festival directors create fair and balanced programs for their festivals. Notwithstanding the quality of the films, a festival with all Black films is not necessarily that interesting as a mainstream festival, but opens up the doorway of opportunity for niche market festivals. As a filmmaker, when I set out to identify the top 10 festivals for Black Filmmakers, I…