Telling Stories and Making Change
Onstage. Onscreen. Online.
Fierce Star Media is a transmedia, publishing and management agency redefining engagement for scholarship, arts, activist, political and tech communities. Our clients have published books, films, articles, essays, executed issues, awareness and political campaigns, and are featured in mainstream print, radio and television, with large, digital platforms and on social media.
"Creativity is the invisible resource that builds nations,
generates wealth, saves lives and unites people."
----Professor Emeritus Tan Sri Dato' Dr Limkokwing
Key Events:
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The Bombastic Brilliance of Black Twitter, SXSW, Austin, TX, March 2012 - 2019
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A Trip Off The Old Block to South Africa and Senegal, December/January 2019
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Speaker, AFROPUNK South Africa, December 2018
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Lausanne Afro-Fusion Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2018
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Massilia Afropea Festival, Marseille, France, June 2018
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Camargo African Diaspora Playwrights Residency, Cassis, France, June 2018
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Initiatives of Change, Just Governance for Human Security, Switzerland 2017-2018
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FENCES, Paramount Pictures, Denzel Washington, Director, December 2016
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BEYOND THE LIGHTS, A Conversation with Gina Prince-Bythewood, SXSW 2015
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Smartmouthed Live: Dr. Goddess opens for Terry McMillan, 2013
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#SCANDAL: How Television's Hottest Show is Fueled by Social Media, SXSW 2013
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#DJANGO, Off the Chain: Blacks, Social Media and Django Unchained, SXSW 2013
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Strategic Content Across Multiple Media: Onstage, Onscreen, Online, BlogHer 2013
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Smartmouthed Live Premiere, The Cabaret at Theater Square, 2013
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Pittsburgh CASA Citywide Flash Mob Dance (Choreographer/Director) June 2011
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National CASA Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2010
Social TV:
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#DemThrones: Blackness in HBO's "Game of Thrones" Tweetchat
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#BlackPantherDoc Ambassador, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Stanley Nelson, Director
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#Scandal: How Television's Hottest Show is Fueled by Social Media
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#DrGonHGTV
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Blackness in Game of Thrones
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An Open Letter to Mike Judge on HBO's "Silicon Valley"
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Monet Bell from #MarriedAtFirstSight
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#MaRainey Tweetchat for #Bessie
Arts Clients:
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The National Black Theatre Festival (A biennial festival, 60,000 persons, one week)
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Dr. Goddess Arts (Dr. Goddess!: A One Woman Show, Dr. Goddess Goes to Jail, Smartmouthed Live, Community Meeting, The Next Ex)
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Serendipity Literary Agency
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The Black Gents of Hollywood (Black Angels Over Tuskegee)
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Tshidi Manye (Rafiki in "The Lion King" on Broadway)
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DanceAfrica Pittsburgh
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Balafon West African Dance Ensemble
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United Black Book Clubs
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We support #BlackLitChat
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Banff Spoken Word Artists Residency, Alberta, Canada
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Activism:
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Electoral, Issues and Awareness Campaigns - we get clients engaged, elected, and re-elected
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#BlackPoliticsMatter - a Civic Tech Project
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#AskaSista - Black Women Muse on Politics and Pop Culture
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#BeyondFerguson with Dr. Maya Rockeymoore
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#YBTM - You're Beautiful to Me, a transmedia documentary project for Dementia and Caregiving
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#WHCOA - The White House Conference on Aging, #BlackCaregiver, #BlackDementiaMatters
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#SocialCourtTV, #OscarGrant, #AiyanaJones, #TrayvonWarriors, #MikeBrown, #RenishaMcBride, #RekiaBoyd, #EricGarner, #SandraBland, #SamDubose and more.
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#SaveTheAWC - The winning campaign to Save the August Wilson Center in Pittsburgh
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#AFFRM (Member / Rebel - African American Film Releasing Movement via Ava DuVernay)
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We endorse and support #BlackGirlsCode, #YesWeCode, Black Techies and more!
Scholarship:
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Against All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic: The Tulsa Race Riot, War and Massacre of 1921 2018
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#GradChat, We support #BlackLitChat
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Carnegie Mellon University Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy
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The Association of Afro-American Life and History Conference, Pittsburgh, PA 2012
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Women as Global Leaders Conference, Dubai / Abu Dhabi, 2008
