“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 MoreColor Farm co-founder, Erika Alexander, recently published an article with ZORA on Medium explaining why her Twitter conversation with David Schwimmer of TV show ‘Friends’ matters and how it points to the systemic ignorance behind the battle. This example of ‘Living Single’ vs ‘Friends’ is at the heart of why Color Farm exists because it a prime example in the systemic racism within Hollywood that has created huge disparities in how much production and marketing support TV shows and films receive based on the racial makeup of the cast.
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 MoreColor 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.’
Read MoreColor Farm co-founder, Erika Alexander, appears on The Breakfast Club along with RZA and Ashton Sanders to promote the premiere of Hulu’s "‘Wu-Tang': An American Saga.’ Erika stars in the series as Linda Diggs.
Read MoreColor 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.
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 MoreKeep It Colorful combines inclusive crowdfunding and streaming platform Seed&Spark, entertainment and lifestyle network Black&SexyTV and Erika Alexander's diversity-focused media company Color Farm Media to develop a multi-city educational tour and a crowdfunding rally this fall. The focus of the initiative is to educate filmmakers and give them a platform as well as use their educational stops as political opportunities such as voter registration drives starting in July.
Read MoreColor Farm’s co-founder, Erika Alexander, appears as a guest on The Breakfast Club.
“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.
