For the second year in a row, Queen Latifah is showcasing new short films with her program called the Queen Collective.
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During a virtual media roundtable, Queen Latifah, Marc Pritchard (Chief Brand Officer, Procter Gamble), and Paula Weinstein (Chief Content Officer, Tribeca Enterprises) talked about what inspired the creation of the program.
This year’s Queen Collective winners (Samantha Knowles, Nadine Natour and Ugonna Okpalaoka) were also at the roundtable and went into detail about their new projects.
“A few months later, we conceived of Queen Collective, which was a program to be able to get Black and brown women behind the camera because believe it or not only about 10 percent of films are directed by women and fewer than 1 percent are directed by women of color,” continued Pritchard.
Watch tall he short films from the Queen Collective on BET Her on June 13 at 9 pm EST.