6th Annual Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival

Ms. Williams serves as Williams & Floyd LLC’s Managing Partner. A thoughtful entertainment lawyer with more than 10 years’ experience in entertainment law, Breyuna focuses her practice on transactional law with an emphasis on the motion picture, television, music, and multimedia industries. Breyuna works with clients to effectively implement brand-building strategies that create long-lasting success. She has aided and assisted clients in all areas of entertainment law, including: motion... Read More →

From an internship with Will Packer of Rainforest Films in 2001, Diane Ashford quickly learned the business. Diane now serves as CEO and President of Symmetry Entertainment where she has been producing and line producing for more than 10 years now. | Some of her projects include titles like "Trois: The Escort," "Motives 2," "Stomp The Yard 2... Read More →

Before launching his own entertainment outfit, Brett Dismuke served as President/COO of The Swirl Group, President of Moguldom Entertainment, and previously as the Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and Urban Programming for RLJ Entertainment's One Village studio. Brett has over 20 years of marketing, production, sales and branding... Read More →

Since joining Allied in 2000, Marty has worked on hundreds of publicity and promotional campaigns for film studios such as Walt Disney Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Miramax Films, The Weinstein Company, Focus Features, Sony, Lionsgate, STX Entertainment and Broad Green Pictures.  Along with marketing hundreds of releases, he has also coordinated local press events with filmmakers from an eclectic roster of movies including CABIN IN THE... Read More →

John Luteran is the Director of Interactive Entertainment/Media at the Greater Cleveland Film Commission. In addition to being in charge of all marketing and communications efforts for the organization, John works to grow the areas of game development, virtual and augmented reali... Read More →

Samad Davis is a true native of Newark, New Jersey (USA). Life and times in this colorful city gave him an understanding of the rhythm and value of stories from the streets. These were the stories of the have nots and the have all. Samad realized that he had to learn how to tell these unique stories. The classic and timeless medium of film would be his means by which to do so. He would learn the photochemical process by enrolling in the school of Film, Video, and Arts (FVA) in New York City and by working on indie films such as Ice of Life and Comedy in... Read More →