Robert Townsend

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

Julie Taymor

Film, Opera, & Academy Award-Nominated Theater Director

Adam Rodriguez

American Actor, Screenwriter, & Director Best Known For His Role On "CSI: Miami"

Mike O'Malley

Emmy-nominated actor and writer; known for his role as ‘Burt Hummel’ in Fox’s hit series "Glee"

Bette Midler

Entertainer & Award-Winning Actress & Singer

Spike Lee

Academy Award-Winning Writer, Producer, Actor & Director; Best Known for "BlacKkKlansman" & "Malcolm X"

Daniel Dae Kim

Actor, Director & Producer

Tony Hale

Emmy Award-Winning Actor & Comedian

Bradley Cooper

Actor Known for "Silver Linings Playbook," "Serena" & "American Sniper"

Ken Burns

Historian & Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker

Larissa Rhodes

Film Producer, Film Director, Cinematographer, Film Editor, Actor, Screenwriter & Composer

Charles D. King

Entrepreneur, Investor, Activist, Producer, CEO of MACRO

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Zazie Beetz

Emmy Award-Nominated Actress; Known for "Atlanta"

Rick Famuyiwa

Director, Producer & Screenwriter; Known for "The Wood" and "Brown Sugar"

Charles Stone III

TV, Music Video & Film Director Known for "Drumline" and "Paid in Full"

Nzingha Stewart

Television Writer & Director

Christine Swanson

Filmmaker, Writer & Director

Salim Akil

Director of Popular TV Shows Including "Black Lightning" & "Being Mary Jane"

Millicent Shelton

Music Video & Television Director

Frankie Shaw

Golden Globe-Nominated Creator, Writer & Director of Showtime's "SMILF"

Bradford Young

Oscar-Nominated Cinematographer Known for "Arrival" & "When They See Us"

Bill Skarsgård

Actor & Producer

Jordan Vogt-Roberts

Director; Best Known for "The Kings of Summer"

Tim Story

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

Jim Jarmusch

Director & Writer; Known for "Stranger Than Paradise" and "Paterson"

Paul Thomas Anderson

Critically Acclaimed Director, Producer & Screenwriter Known for "There Will be Blood"

Simon Kinberg

Writer, Producer

Phil Lord and Chris Miller

American Film and Television Writers, Producers, Directors, Actors, and Animators, Best Known for Films "Cloud With a Chance of Meatballs," "The Lego Movie," "21 Jump Street," and "22 Jump Street"

Cynthia Erivo

Singer-Songwriter & Grammy & Tony Award-Winning Actress; Known for "The Color Purple," "Wicked" & Portraying Harriet Tubman in "Harriet"; Vice President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts

Robert Carlock

Screenwriter & Producer, Comedy Writer, Co-Creator of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt