[HOLLYWOOD REPORTER] Serena and Venus Williams Board Color Farm's Diahann Carroll Documentary Film as Executive Producers (Exclusive)

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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.

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The Big Payback on The ReidOut with Joy Reid (MSNBC) →

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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

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DEADLINE: ‘Xerø’: Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unit Developing Live-Action Film Based On Comics By Christopher Priest

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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.

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VARIETY: Color Farm's 'Finding Tamika' Coming to Audible with Kevin Hart & Charlamagne Tha God

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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.

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VARIETY EXCLUSIVE: Color Farm Media Teams with WarnerMedia 150 to Develop Scripted TV Projects

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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.

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DEADLINE: Oprah Sets Exclusive Sitdown With John Lewis For ‘Good Trouble’ Screenings; Time To “Put On Our Marching Shoes,” Civil Rights Icon Says

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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.

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MSNBC's AM JOY: Color Farm Co-Founder, Erika Alexander, Speaks With Joy Reid about 'John Lewis: Good Trouble' Premiere Screening in Tulsa on Juneteenth

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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.

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Color Farm Supports Rev. Barber and the Poor People's Campaign

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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.

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Color Farm Media Leads Special Juneteenth Partnership with the NBA for John Lewis: Good Trouble

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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.

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BET: Color Farm and Participant Team with BET to Launch John Lewis Good Trouble Social Impact Campaign

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“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.”

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FORBES: Civil Rights Icon John Lewis Stirs Up ‘Good Trouble’ In Timely New Documentary

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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.

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