Founded in 2011 by George Alexander, a media veteran with over 15 years of experience as a producer, director, author and journalist. As the company’s founder and principal, George has produced shows and video content for Time Inc.’s ESSENCE Communications, Viacom’s BET Networks and IIU Consulting. He has also written for VH1 and The Biography Channel and served as the editor-at-large for Black En
terprise magazine. An NAACP Image Award-nominated producer, George Alexander served as the executive producer and director of TV One Night Only: Live from the 2011 ESSENCE Music Festival, a two-hour television special showcasing musical performances from the nation’s largest Black music festival. The special, which premiered on TV One, featured performances by some of the biggest names in entertainment: Mary J. Blige, New Edition, Usher, Jill Scott, Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia, Charlie Wilson, El DeBarge, KEM, Ledisi, and Trey Songz. This year George executive produced and directed the video tributes for the 2012 ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Awards, a star-studded event, which honored Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes and actresses Pam Grier, Kerry Washington, Octavia Spencer and Paula Patton. George also executive produced the videos for the 2011 awards honoring Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson, Loretta Devine and Viola Davis. The videos featured Tom Cruise, Forest Whitaker, Patrick Dempsey, Anne Sweeney, Angela Bassett, Anthony Mackie, among others. In 2009 and 2010 George served as the supervising producer on the BET Networks show Leading Women, a biography show on outstanding African American women including Dr. Maya Angelou, India.Arie, Fantasia, Susan Taylor, Toni Braxton, Iman, among others. George earned a 2010 NAACP Image Award nomination for the show’s episodes on Dr. Angelou and India.Arie. As a journalist and blogger, in addition to Black Enterprise and BlackEnterprise.com, George has also written for The Huffington Post, CNN.com, AOL, Daily Variety, ESSENCE, Ebony, HBO.com, Forbes Special Interest, American Legacy, Playthings, and Savoy. George is the co-author of the Essence magazine bestseller Queens: Portraits of Black Women and their Fabulous Hair (Doubleday, November 2005) with photographer Michael Cunningham. Queens is a photo essay book of Black women from around the world, including England, Ghana, and Seychelles, discussing their personal hair stories. His first book, the celebrated Essence magazine bestseller Why We Make Movies: Black Filmmakers Talk about the Magic of Cinema, was published by Doubleday Harlem Moon. The first of its kind, Why We Make Movies is a collection of interviews with thirty-three outstanding African-American directors and producers including Spike Lee, John Singleton, Melvin Van Peebles, Julie Dash, Gordon Parks, Ossie Davis, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Warrington Hudlin, Reginald Hudlin, St. Harvard University has used Why We Make Movies in a class taught by renowned film critic Elvis Mitchell. George was the co-writer of the VH1 special series Black in the 80s. The three-part series examines and celebrates the impact of Black popular culture—-from The Cosby Show to Oprah to Spike Lee to hip hop and R&B—-on mainstream culture during the 1980s. The series premiered in February 2005.