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Background
Where you came from before film — jobs, cities, people, failures.
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The Pivot
The moment — sometimes a decade in the making — that turned you toward filmmaking.
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The Why
What keeps you here. What the work is for. What you're still chasing.
EBONY TATES
Host · First Time Filmmakers
Pontiac-born actor, writer, and producer. Ebony's spent the last decade in front of and behind the camera — modeling, then film, then building her own projects — and she knows the path into this industry isn't a straight line. That's why she's the right person to ask the questions.
She'll be sitting across from every guest. Expect curiosity, not a script.
Selected Credits Mother May I · A Good Man · Street Legal (S1–2) · Detroit Favorite Actress, 2021
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