Film * Television * Music * Entertainment * Fashion / Beauty
S.T.E.A.M. * Games Development * Cultural Education * Entrepreneurs
Bringing A New Kind of Hollywood
to the Heartland
OKIEWOOD
O.W.L. (Opportunities-Wealth Building-Legacy) Entertainment Re-Imagined Production Company, as part of our CMP Studios and CMP entities, is where we will be producing a lot of our in-house projects. Our goal is to produce a minimum of 1000 hours of content programming (television programming for our new channels, films, videos-on-demand, and programming for multi-media platforms). We are currently accepting previously copyrighted materials for development consideration (see our event page for details). Under O.W.L. Entertainment Re-Imagined is where you will also find our BIPOC+ projects developed by those creators, filmmakers, and television shows creators. We will be offering a variety of innovating projects, plans including rebooting old television shows with a diverse cast.
As another part of our BHAG, we will be creating several new television channels (all genres) that are family-friendly, children-oriented, and culturally diverse.
For more details, visit our Colorful Me Productions website: www.colorfulmeproductions.com
Many times in our planning sessions as multi-generations, when the older members began to share stories with the younger ones, We started reminiscing about what we refer to as the “good ole days”, however, there were always these missing pieces such as; there were no Dolls that looked like us, there were no diverse Models on the covers of fashion
magazines, and we rarely saw ourselves on television and when we did they were stereotyped roles. Even though we have come a long way, there is still so much farther we need to go. And sadly to say even in the 21st century, 60 years after the Martin Luther King movement, there are still POC+ that do not see themselves in the television or film industries daily. So together, young and old we agree WE STILL HAVE A DREAM and a CHANGE is GONNA COME!
TOLESG / CMP is committed to bringing back a lot of nostalgia in our future in almost everything we do, by doing things our Ancestors' way and teaching our children the lessons that somehow got lost along the way. Our new Once Upon A Time is going to be reimagining and creating what was lost during our bygone days. COME BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH US!
Everyone has a story to tell, and we want to become the company willing to open the doors for so many of these Storytellers. We want to be the place of opportunity where we can say more YESES than NOS. CMP wants to introduce a whole new spectrum of BIPOC+ Creators -Above-the-Line and Below-the-Line workers who need a place, space, and Mentors to show them the way. There is no time better than now, the awareness and curiosity are at their highest level, and it has been proven over and over that BIPOC+ (Black Panther, Crazy Rich Asians, CODA, etc.) stories can become box-office hits and Oscars winners too. WE CAN DO THIS...LET'S DO THIS!
Starting with Creating a New Network and Several New TELEVISION SHOWS
First Two: New Channels for the DEAF and FIRST AMERICANS
Filmmaking in Oklahoma - A very successful Native American TV Series produced V-O-D series
RESERVATION DOGS (FX-Hula TV Series) created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi
Reservation Dogs is a single-camera comedy that follows four Indigenous teenagers (played by Woon-A-Tai, Devery Jacobs, Paulina Alexis, and Lane Factor) who live on a reservation in rural Oklahoma. One of the crowning achievements of the FX on Hulu series from filmmaker Sterlin Harjo and actor-writer Taika Waititi (JoJo Rabbit), aside from its all-Indigenous cast and crew, is the authentic and mostly comical way it depicts life in the native community.
“No one knows any truth or anything about native people,” explains Harjo, a Seminole/Muscogee Creek filmmaker from Holdenville, Oklahoma. “No one really knows what our lives are like. So, anything that I do is kind of breaking stereotypes.” “That’s really an important thing for both of us, to get rid of the stereotypes that threaten to keep us stuck in time,” Waititi says. “We just want to show people that our cultures are alive and thriving. We are still here. We’re not just relegated to these images that you see in other movies and Westerns, where people assume Native Americans wear traditional clothes and ride horses and fight cowboys. That’s just one tiny part of a people’s history. It’s way richer than that.”
Reference Deadline Hollywood by Lynette Rice
