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 Carl Jackson Entertainment, was founded and is owned by American singer and filmmaker Carl Elijah Jackson in 2002. Carl Jackson has executive produced, produced, and directed the movie Inhumanity starring Todd Bridges with Faizon Love, CHURCH starring Irma P. Hall the DOVE Foundation approved movie "Southern Girls" with original music produced by Phil Keaggy, "Blissful Lies" starring Emmy Award winning Leann Hunley, and "Strong Black Woman". 

 Carl Jackson has directed several music videos for notable gospel artists such as Angie Winans, Deitrick Haddon, The Rance Allen Group, and Vanessa Bell Armstrong. The work of Carl Jackson has been featured in the American WOW gospel music compilation DVD series, 2003, 2005 and 2009. On Friday July 19th 2013, Carl Jackson launched CJC Network around the world. CJC is the first television channel for Smart TVs and products, running 24 hours a day in America, Canada and the UK. CJC features movies, original series, concert specials and more. 

 Willie Jolley is a world-class award-winning speaker, best-selling author and multimedia personality. In the January 2010 issue of Success Magazine, Willie Jolley was hailed as the ‘Comeback King.’ He earned this title for successfully helping Ford Motors avert the need to accept bail out dollars! Ford hired Willie to speak to all their employees, plus helped them design an internal communications campaign to reinforce the Ford “Bold Moves” messages. 

 He was named “One of the Outstanding Five Speakers in the World” by Toastmasters International. Less than 50 speakers worldwide hold that honor! Former winners include Nelson Mandela, Christopher Reeve, Margaret Thatcher and Colin Powell! Willie Jolley is the author of several international best-selling books including “It Only Takes a Minute to Change Your Life!” and “A Setback Is A Setup For A Comeback.” They have been translated into many languages. His client list includes: Raytheon, Marriott hotels, Hyatt hotels, Verizon Enhanced Communities, Weichert Real Estate, National Federation of State High Schools, Mary Kay Cosmetics and the Social Security Administration 

 Henry Franklin played on Hugh Masekela’s 1968 number one single, “Grazing in the Grass,” as well as with Masekela’s band at the Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967. In addition, Franklin has played and recorded with Gene Harris & the Three Sounds, Hampton Hawes, Freddie Hubbard, Bobbi Humphrey, Willie Bobo, Archie Shepp, O.C. Smith, Count Basie, Stevie Wonder and Al Jarreau. Franklin’s recording—composed by Sanifu Al Hall, Jr.– “Soft Spirit” was featured on the breakbeat compilation Tribe Vibes as it had been sampled by the musical group A Tribe Called Quest. 

 Encourage by his father, Sammy Franklin, a jazz trumpeter and bandleader, he studied with Al McKibbon and George Morrow and listening to Paul Chambers and Doug Watkins. While attending the Manual Arts High School he played with his first professional band – the Roy Ayers Latin Jazz Quintet. Around that time, Franklin worked with Harold Land and Hampton Hawes. Years later he would tour Europe with Hawes and record five albums with him. In Los Angeles, Franklin also played with Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Billy Higgins and Scott LaFaro. 

 Melodic Productions is an entertainment and multi-media company , helping to continue bringing awareness to each brand while enabling independent content owners to reach hundreds of outlets around the world with a comprehensive and unique technology platform that provides distribution, marketing and internet business services with efficiency and control via top digital, mobile, and online retailers such as iTunes, Spotify, Verizon, Amazon.com, and Rhapsody, etc. 

Askkanwii Filmmaking Hub Incubator is a 501(C)3 organization located in Denver, Colorado, USA, catering to underrepresented communities, both local and abroad. It was established by Ousmane Ndoye in 2013 with a vision to impart education to help shape tomorrow’s content creators, artists and filmmakers.

Utilizing advanced technology and modern practices for the 21st century, Askkanwii Filmmaking Hub has been creating and providing filmmaking programs, platforms, and forums that are accessible to underrepresented  in Colorado and the diaspora.

Additionally, the organization collaborates with fellow filmmakers, filmmaking associations, and industry experts in Colorado and the diaspora.

 For over 25 years, Todd Barkan has distinguished himself as one of the world’s outstanding jazz concert and record producers. From his early work as the owner, manager and programmer of the legendary San Francisco jazz club, Keystone Korner to his most recent activity as producer for Fantasy/Milestone/Prestige Records, CBS-Sony Records, Alfa Records, Sunnyside Communications, MusicMasters, Video Arts Music, Venus Records, Blue Note Records and Meldac Records, Todd Barkan has developed an international reputation as one of the highest quality and most effective jazz producers on the current scene.