Michael Pinckney

<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Michael Pinckney is the founder and managing director of Black Noise Media, a</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">full service production house based in New York City. He got his start over twelve</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">yeas ago under the tutelage of filmmaker Spike Lee and soon after joined The</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Director’s Guild of America. He has over 10 years experience as an assistant</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">director on films and television series such as The 25<span style="font: 7.0px Helvetica">th </span>Hour, 7th Heaven, The</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Best Man, Law &amp; Order, Inside Man and The academy award nominated film</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Precious in which he was nominated for a DGA award along with the director Lee</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Daniels as part of his directing team. He has also worked as an assistant</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">director on countless TV commercials for clients like Coco Cola, McDonalds,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Nike, Microsoft and Burger King. Mr. Pinckney has directed short films,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">commercials, music videos and PSA’s for clients like Goodwill Industries, The NY</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">GIANTS, Select Media, Youth Communications, Def Jam and 4mm Games. He</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">won an award for Excellence in Media from The Black Men’s Film Conference for</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">his HIV film “The Candy Store” and toured the film festival circuit with films from</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">his short film collection. Recently he made his feature film debut with “You’re</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Nobody til somebody kills you”, a gritty crime thriller Executive Produced by his</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">mentor Spike Lee. He consistently speaks at high schools and colleges which</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">prompted him to start The Black Noise Foundation, the non-profit arm for Black</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Noise Media as a tool to give back and help nurture young aspiring filmmakers.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Under Pinckney’s leadership Black Noise Media currently has a wide range of</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">film and television projects in various phases of development.</p>

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