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.
Read MoreColor 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.
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: 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.
Read MoreColor 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.
Read MoreColor 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.
Read More“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.”
Read MoreJohn 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.
Read MoreDirected 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.
Read MorePorter 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.
Read MoreParticipant 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.
Read MoreWith help from Civil’s blockchain-based platform, a new site called The Blackness will tell long-form multimedia stories about marginalized communities.
Read More“We want Color Farm to be the first tokenized film fund,” Arnon says, articulating a business vision every bit as radical as Alexander’s creative goals for the company. “The promise of blockchain – freedom, access, decentralization – has a close affinity with our mission of diversity.”
Read MoreColor Farm Media announcement in Deadline Hollywood.
