ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Felicia Pride
Felicia Pride is a TV writer / producer and an award-winning filmmaker. Her shorts have screened at dozens of festivals, won awards, aired on national television, and garnered her incredible career opportunities.
She wrote on Ava DuVernay's QUEEN SUGAR, GREY’S ANATOMY, and is currently a Supervising Producer on BEL-AIR. She also development television series with Amazon, Netflix, and FX.
In film, she’s the writer and executive producer of REALLY LOVE, produced by MACRO, 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 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 BlackStar Film Festival and was nominated for an Humanitas Prize.
“Creating my two shorts, tender and LOOK BACK AT IT, have been hands down the highlights of my creative career.”
She founded and runs HONEY CHILE, a production company catering to Black women 40+ and is the co-host of their NAACP-nominated podcast Chile, Please.
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 nearly 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 for underrepresented storytellers that she founded in 2012.
ACCOLADES FOR FELICIA'S SHORT FILMS
Played in more than 60 film festivals around the world including ABFF, BlackStar, Urbanworld, Chicago International Film Festival, Outfest, Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival, Frameline, Atlanta Film Festival, Bentonville Film Festival and more...
Won the Audience Award and Lionsgate Award at BlackStar Film Festival (for two different films!)
Nominated for the prestigious Humanitas Prize for Screenwriting
Aired on STARZ
Premiered on Shadow & Act
Awarded a production grant by the Plan A: Black Women on the Rise Film Festival that was presented by Ms. Tina Knowles
Won more than 10 awards and counting...
More than 60,000 views across YouTube and Vimeo
Raised more than $30,000
