About Us
The company, founded by Ms. DuBose, has a name based on the Native American belief that everything we do affects the seven generations that come after us. The company is not tied to any specific genre. It does believe in storytelling that is entertaining, inspiring, empowering, engaging and fun.
Hisani P. DuBose is both an accomplished and versatile screenwriter and director, who began as a playwright. Her first musical, Different Kinda Blues, premiered at Seton Hall University and moved to a regional theatre for a successful run. To date, her works have covered a litany of genres, which include: musicals, documentaries and drama.
After receiving her Masters in Media Studies from The New School in NYC, Hisani went on to study screenwriting at NYU, JVC of America; Professional Products Division, Writers Guild of America East; competitive workshops, and Writer’s Voice. In 2003, she founded the NJ Movie Maker’s Network, which was a service organization for independent filmmakers.
Her credits include: The Roaring Whisper, a commissioned documentary on the history of African Americans in New Brunswick, in her native state of New Jersey; The Vanishing Black Male, which been seen in film festivals around the country and won the Broader Vision award from the Garden State Film Festival. Its currently on Amazon Prime. One of Hisani’s screenplays has placed as a finalist in Director Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screen Writer’s Competition. To date, she has also authored and published several books and articles as well as written and produced several musicals.
Hisani Dubose
Producer/Screenwriter/Director
Monty Ross is an experienced and successful film producer. He’s Co-produced such hit films as: She’s Gotta Have It, Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X, Clockers, Jungle Fever and Crooklyn. He’s most known for his work with Spike Lee and Forty Acres And A Mule Filmworks, which he Co-Founded with Spike Lee. After Crooklyn, Monty took a break from Forty Acres and began producing films that he felt passionate about. He produced such films as: Keep the Faith, Baby, a biopic about Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Escaping Jersey, and produced and directed, Reasons.
Monty Ross
Creative Producer
Alfred J. Santana is a professional film and video producer, cinematographer, and editor. He has made numerous award-winning documentaries, public affairs films and videos that have aired on both network and public television. Mr. Santana produces independent documentaries, narrative and experimental work for television, the web and theatrical presentation.
Alfred Santana
Cinematographer
About Hisani
Hisani P. DuBose has experience as an artist both onstage and backstage. During her senior year at Seton Hall University she wrote the book and lyrics for her first musical, Different Kinda Blues. She also performed and served as choreographer. Upon graduation with a BS in Political Science Hisani moved to New York, worked at Dance Theater of Harlem and continued to write and co-produce two more musicals.
Wanting to switch from playwriting to screenwriting she applied for and was accepted into a competitive nine-week screenwriting workshop offered by the Writer’s Guild of America, East and Writer’s Voice. She also wrote feature articles for several local magazines and a monthly column for an entrepreneurial newspaper.
Hisani learned more about screenwriting and movie production by taking professional courses at New York University, JVC of America, Professional Products Division, The Independent Feature Project and a host of other places. In May of 2015 she received her Masters Degree in Media Studies from the New School. (N.Y.C.). Her documentary, The Vanishing Black Male, has been seen in film festivals around the country and won the Broader Vision award from the Garden State film festival. Late Syndicated movie critic Kam Williams called her one of the best Directors of 2005. One of her screenplays placed as a finalist in Director Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screen Writer’s Competition that same year. In 2018 and 2020 two other of her screenplays placed as quarter finalists in major festivals.
In 2003 she founded and operated a membership based organization called NJ Movie Maker’s Network which was a service organization for independent filmmakers. The organization held monthly workshops in Newark on various topics in filmmaking with guest speakers that included writer/educator Richard Wesley (Uptown Saturday Night, Deacons for Defense…) and actor Michael B. Jordan. The NJ Movie Maker's Network gave Michael B. Jordan his first award in 2003 for his performance in HBO's The Wire and The Sopranos.
She is a published author of the books, “Do I Have to be a Starving Artist in the 21st Century?” and “Be Epic.” Ms. DuBose was commissioned to write and produce a documentary on the history of African Americans in New Brunswick, NJ, entitled, The Roaring Whisper, as well as curating an exhibit on the history of African Americans in New Jersey’s film industry for the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission. Hisani spent six years as an Associate Programmer with the New Jersey Performing Arts Center producing community performances for international artists such as Hugh Masekela, Paquito D’ Rivera, Babatunje Olatunji and others.
She spent eleven years as an Adjunct Professor at Bloomfield College in the Creative Arts and Technology Division training filmmakers, animators and game designers in the arts of storytelling, visual design, the business of entertainment and history of cinema. She has also conducted screenwriting workshops in film festivals and was commissioned to adapt two books into screenplays.
Ms. DuBose currently has a short documentary called, ITS TIME that premiered on Youtube in March of 2019 that explores the journey of adult children who have to put parents with dementia in nursing facilities. Ms. DuBose and company are currently in the process of working to finance and produce their newest movie to be shot in Newark , NJ entitled, POPCORN in the Water!