**Editor’s Note: This episode of Scene 2 Seen was taped earlier than the July 14th begin of the actor’s strike.
Hello and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen podcast! I’m Valerie Complex, and immediately we’re speaking to director Chris Robinson about his newest directorial movie, Shooting Stars.
An award-winning director and producer, Chris Robinson is understood for his critically acclaimed physique of labor that defies style and is consistently increasing. He and his manufacturing firm, Robot Film Company, are identified for his or her acclaimed storytelling centered round black voices and altering views.
Robinson’s newest function, Shooting Stars, the upcoming Peacock Original based mostly on the e book by LeBron James and the Pulitzer Prize profitable creator Buzz Bissinger, premiered on Friday, June 2. “Shooting Stars” is the inspiring origin story of a basketball superhero, revealing how LeBron James and his childhood buddies turn out to be the #1 highschool workforce within the nation, launching James’s breathtaking profession as a four-time NBA Champion, two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and the NBA’s all-time main scorer. Shooting Stars is a movie about humanity and connection, and the way the deepest human relationships could be established and elevated by means of sport.
Robinson’s different function directing credit embrace his function debut, Warner Bros.’ ATL, which garnered nominations from the Black Movie Awards, Black Reel Awards and the NAACP Awards. His observe up function, Netflix’s Beats, starred Khalil Everage, Evan J. Simpson, Ashley Jackson, Ahmad Nicholas Ferguson and Uzo Aduba.
Other directing highlights embrace BET’s highest-rated program, The New Edition Story, which chronicled the epic rise of the legendary music group New Edition. The sequence earned an NAACP Image Award, and starred Bryshere Y. Gray, Elijah Kelley and Luke James, and launched the profession of Caleb McLaughlin (who additionally stars in Shooting Stars). In addition, Robinson’s directing credit embrace President Barack Obamas’ White House live performance “Love & Happiness,” the Amazon Prime pilot The Climb, and likewise served as a Co-Executive Producer of the Fox/Lee Daniels one hour drama, STAR.
Robinson has additionally produced and directed a number of episodes of tv together with Black-ish, Grown-ish, Mixed-ish, American Soul, and Kevin Hart’s scripted comedy, Real Husbands of Hollywood. In the multi-cam house, Robinson has directed comedy specials corresponding to Tiffany Haddish’s From the Hood to Hollywood, Yvonne Orji’s Momma I Made It, and “Dave Chappelle: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor,” which Robinson was nominated for an Emmy.
Outside of movie and tv, Robinson has a prolific profession in music videography. Robinson’s distinctive visible type earned him collaborations with prolific artists corresponding to Jay Z, Lady Gaga, Yasin Bey, Drake, Alicia Keys, Pharrell, Busta Rhymes, Eminem, Rihanna, Lenny Kravitz, Snoop Dogg, ASAP Rocky, Diddy, Usher, Mary J. Blige, Outkast and plenty of extra. He earned popularity of his course of Erykah Badu’s “Honey” music video, which earned him an award for Best Direction from MTV’s Video Music Awards. Robinson was additionally nominated for a Grammy award for the enduring music video “ONE MIC” that includes NAS.
Robinson’s manufacturing firm, Robot Film Company, was launched in 1999 and has since garnered BET, MTV VMA, VIBE Magazine and Much Music Awards, in addition to a number of Grammy nominations for acclaimed work with such artists as Rhianna, Usher, Diddy, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Snoop Dogg, Pharrell, Nas, Busta Rhymes, Lil Wayne, Eminem, TI, Justin Timberlake and plenty of others. In 2001, Apple selected Robot as the primary firm to showcase their iPod by means of product placement, and since then Robot has remained a frontrunner in executing focused advertising and promoting campaigns for shoppers corresponding to AT&T, Adidas, Hypnotic and Nuvo.
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