Terence Winter

Emmy Award-Winning Writer, "Boardwalk Empire," "The Sopranos"

Reginald Hudlin

Writer, Director and Producer; Known for "Django Unchained" &"House Party"; One Half of Hudlin Brothers Production Company

F. Gary Gray

Director, Film Produce & Actor; Best Known for Directing "Straight Outta Compton" & "The Italian Job"

Antoine Fuqua

Film Director & Producer Best Known for "Olympus Has Fallen" and "The Equalizer"

Antoine Fuqua dishes on 'The Equalizer 3'

Shawn Wayans

Comedic Actor Best Known for Spoofs like "Scary Movie" and "Dance Flick"

Robert Townsend

Award-Winning Filmmaker & Former CEO of the Black Family Channel

Charles S. Dutton

Actor & Director Known for "Roc" and "The Piano Lesson"

Wendy Calhoun

Writer & Executive Producer

dream hampton

Cultural Critic, Award-Winning Filmmaker & Executive Producer of "Surviving R.Kelly"

Zazie Beetz

Emmy Award-Nominated Actress; Known for "Atlanta"

Tim Story

Film Director Known for "Ride Along" & "Think Like A Man"

Richard Ayoade

English Actor, Writer, TV Presenter, and Director

Amma Asante

British Screenwriter & Director Known for "Belle" and "A Way of Life"

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Writer & Director Known for "Love & Basketball" & Netflix's "The Old Guard"; First Black Woman to Direct a Major Comic-Book Movie

Gina Prince-Bythewood: ‘I have fought for my vision’

Justin Simien

Writer, Director, Actor & Producer; Best Known for Directing the Award-Winning Film "Dear White People"

Stanley Nelson Jr.

Emmy Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker Known for "Freedom Summer" and "Attica"

Julie Dash

Director & Writer Known for "Daughters of the Dust"; First Black Woman to Direct A Full-Length General Theatrical Release Film in the U.S.

Dee Rees

Award-Winning Writer & Director Known for "Pariah"

Evan Handler

Actor, Author, Screenwriter & Journalist; Best Known for “Sex and the City,” and "Californication"

Julie Taymor

Film, Opera, & Academy Award-Nominated Theater Director

Rachel Fleit

Documentary Filmmaker & Alopecia Awareness Advocate Known for "Bama Rush" and "Introducing, Selma Blair"

Howard Michael Gould

Author of the Charlie Waldo Novels, Screenwriter, Producer, Director & Playwright

Karimah Westbrook

Actress, Writer & Producer; Best Known for "All American"

Zana Briski

Academy Award-Winning Director & Visionary Creator of Reverence

Erin Lee Carr

Documentary Director, Producer & Author of "All That You Leave Behind"

Sarah-Jane Murray

TED Speaker, Emmy-Nominated and Award-Winning Screenwriter and Filmmaker, Associate Professor of Great Texts and Creative Writing, Baylor University

Elizabeth Berger

Producer and Writer Best Known for "Love, Simon" & "This Is Us"

Issac Aptaker

Producer and Writer Best Known for "Love, Simon" & "This Is Us"

Jay Duplass

Star of Amazon's Series "Transparent" & Writer of HBO's "Togetherness"

Marlene King

Executive Producer and Showrunner of the ABC Family Teen Drama "Pretty Little Liars"