Color Farm Media

For Erika Alexander and Ben Arnon, storytelling isn’t just about entertainment, it’s about creating change. As the founders of Color Farm Media, their mission is to amplify underrepresented voices in film and television. Since launching Color Farm in 2017, the duo has been making waves by producing impactful content and breaking down barriers for creators of all backgrounds. Now, through their sponsorship of Final Draft’s Big Break Screenwriting Competition, they’re taking that mission to the next level by mentoring the next generation of diverse storytellers.

Color Farm is partnering with WeScreenplay to bolster opportunities for underrepresented voices and marginalized people.

Color Farm Impact, the non-profit arm of the eponymous production company that Erika Alexander founded with Ben Arnon, is working with WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Screenwriting Lab on the program.

The Williams sisters are getting back into the producing game.

Serena and Venus Williams, along with their sister Isha Price, have joined documentary Between Starshine and Clay: The Hidden Diary of Diahann Carroll as executive producers alongside Katy Barksdale and Valerie Gamache. The project, currently in production, is being co-directed by Susanne Rostock and Carroll’s daughter, Suzanne Kay, who are producing alongside Color Farm Media’s Erika Alexander and Ben Arnon.

Following Color Farm’s duPont-Columbia Award win for Finding Tamika, the folks at Columbia University interviewed Color Farm co-founder, Erika Alexander, for their “On Assignment” podcast.

Color Farm co-founder, Erika Alexander, joined The Big Payback co-director, Whitney Dow, on The ReidOut with Joy Reid on MSNBC on March 17, 2023 to discuss our groundbreaking North Carolina HBCU Reparations Debate Series in connection with the film.

Watch the segment here: https://youtu.be/_XYjS5pJkNo

In partnership with historically Black colleges and universities, Color Farm Media — the team behind the PBS documentary “The Big Payback” — is bringing the conversation around reparations for Black Americans to the forefront, through a series of student-led debates. 

Color Farm co-founder, Erika Alexander, appeared on Joy Reid’s MSNBC show The ReidOut, along with her co-director for The Big Payback docu film, Whitney Dow, and the film’s main subject, Robin Rue Simmons.

EXCLUSIVE: Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unit Film & Television has optioned Christopher Priest’s comic Xerø for development alongside Color Farm Media as a live-action film with an eye on a franchise.

The film will follow a Black government assassin who weaponizes invisibility by disguising himself as a white man to blend anonymously into the exotic Casino Royale haunts of the international elite. Spanning the gulf between that and the disenfranchised city streets of East St. Louis, Illinois, Trane Walker is a man living in two worlds but taking ownership of neither. Xerø tells the story of his moral awakening and the life-and-death perils it presents.

Color Farm is producing an Audible Original called ‘Finding Tamika’ in partnership with Kevin Hart and Charlamagne Tha God via their SBH Productions. SBH is bringing multiple projects to Audible. Their inaugural project is true-crime series “Finding Tamika,” slated for release March 3, 2022. The series deconstructs “the troubling phenomenon that is the media’s lack of significant coverage of cases of missing or murdered Black women,” according to Audible. “Finding Tamika” tells Tamika’s story through the voices of her family and other principal figures — and even Tamika herself from beyond the grave. The neo-noir production is hosted, produced and co-written by activist and actor Erika Alexander.

Color Farm Media has partnered with WarnerMedia OneFifty to develop a slate of scripted television projects, Variety has learned exclusively.

The media company and WarnerMedia content innovation hub will focus on developing projects featuring underrepresented creative talent.

Color Farm has signed with APA for agency representation.

Congressman John Lewis has recorded a virtual one-on-one interview with Oprah Winfrey to play after every in-theater and virtual cinema screening of the July 3rd released Magnolia Pictures and Participant film. In the current aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, the protests all across the nation and the world against police brutality and the renewed spotlight on Black Lives Matter movement, the duo certainly cut to the chase.

Color Farm co-founder, Erika Alexander, appeared on Joy Reid’s AM Joy television show on MSNBC today to discuss how voting rights is the focus of the upcoming documentary film John Lewis: Good Trouble. Erika and Joy also discussed the premiere screening of the film in Tulsa on Juneteenth.

Color Farm Media is proud to be a leading mobilizing partner for the Poor People’s Campaign and their national call for moral revival. Our co-founders have been working very closely with Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and the team at the Poor People’s Campaign to help raise awareness and to mobilize organizers, activists, celebrities, and influencers in support of the Poor People’s Campaign movement.

The NBA will recognize Juneteenth on its social media channels and host a special, private advance screening for all its leagues and teams of Magnolia Pictures, Participant, and Color Farm Media’s new film “John Lewis: Good Trouble'. The movie is about civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, whose march toward justice still continues after more than 60 years on the frontlines of the movement.

Color Farm is proud to announce the launch of the social impact campaign for the upcoming movie John Lewis: Good Trouble. The campaign is designed to raise awareness of voter suppression and encourage civic participation.

“Congressman Lewis is a living example of courage and faith in action,” said Erika Alexander and Ben Arnon of Color Farm Media. “Color Farm is excited about the amazing partners who have joined us to make sure this film has meaningful impact on the ground during this historic transformation in America.”

John Lewis: Good Trouble is a documentary directed by Dawn Porter for Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media in collaboration with CNN Films, Trilogy Films and Color Farm Media. The project is actually the combination of two proposed Lewis documentaries – one by Porter and Trilogy’s Laura Michalchyshyn, and one by Color Farm’s Erika Alexander and Ben Arnon – who decided to pool resources when they discovered they were working on the same idea. Amy Entelis and Courtney Sexton, who had recently executive produced the Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning feature RBG, about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, facilitated the development of the John Lewis project for CNN Films.

Directed by Dawn Porter, produced by Trilogy Films with Color Farm Media, and executive-produced by CNN Films, AGC Studios and TIME Studios, the film follows the Georgia Democrat's life through interviews and rare archival footage. Porter's present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, cover his upbringing, his first ventures into activism and his relationship with Dr. Martin Luther King.

Porter serves as producer of the film alongside Laura Michalchyshyn, Erika Alexander and Ben Arnon. Executive producers are Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann for Participant; Amy Entelis and Courtney Sexton for CNN Films; Ian Orefice and Mike Beck for TIME Studios; Stuart Ford for AGC Studios, and Rachel Traub.

Magnolia Pictures and Participant will release John Lewis: Good Trouble in theaters and on-demand July 3.

Participant and Magnolia Pictures have acquired the North American rights to “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” a documentary about the life and career of Rep. John Lewis.

Color Farm has launched our digital magazine The Blackness!

In partnership with ZORA from Medium we have published our first edition of The Blackness - a series of articles called ‘Moonrakers 2020.’

Color Farm co-founder, Erika Alexander, who found fame as Maxine Shaw on the classic sitcom Living Single, details what it was really like to rise to fame with the Cosby Show in the 80s, ride the crest of the Golden Era of Black TV in the 90s, and navigate Hollywood as a Black actress after that Black entertainment boom went bust in the 2000s.