FELICIA PRIDE
Felicia Pride is a TV writer / producer and an award-winning filmmaker. She wrote on QUEEN SUGAR, GREY’S ANATOMY, and is currently a writer / supervising producer on BEL-AIR. She’s currently developing shows with Amazon, Netflix, and FX. In film, she’s the writer and executive producer of REALLY LOVE, which debuted on Netflix and became a Top Ten Movie on the platform. And she’s sold features to Universal, Sony, and AGC Studios.
Felicia founded and runs HONEY CHILE, an independent media + production company catering to Black women 40+ and is the co-host of their twice NAACP Image Award-nominated podcast Chile, Please. HONEY CHILE currently has projects setup at CBS Studios, BET Studios, and Lifetime.
Felicia made her directorial debut with tender, an award-winning short film which aired on STARZ, and she is currently on the festival circuit with LOOK BACK AT IT, a proof of concept for her directorial feature debut by the same name, which won the audience award at the BlackStar Film Festival and was nominated for an Humanitas Prize for screenwriting.
Felicia was a Film Independent Screenwriting Lab Fellow and a graduate of NBC's Writers on the Verge program as a comedy writer.
She started her writing career more than twenty years ago as an entertainment journalist before going on to write several books, including the essay collection, The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop’s Greatest Songs. Prior to transitioning to screenwriting, she worked as a film distribution exec and an impact producer. Felicia holds an M.A. in writing from Emerson College and runs The Create Daily, a platform that centers historically excluded storytellers that she founded in 2012.
DRIADONNA ROLAND
Driadonna Roland works in development at Paramount and is the Creative Executive at HONEY CHILE, where her work includes finding IP, working with writers, and finding points of collaboration with Honey authors. It is the perfect role for a nerd like herself who still checks out books from the library!
Driadonna has nearly 15 years of experience in journalism and digital media, with a track record in editorial leadership at industry-leading outlets including Complex, BuzzFeed, and REVOLT.
She is also a producer, content strategist and personality across platforms and currently co-hosts The Create Daily’s new podcast, “The Creative Cut Up.”