According To Michelle Radio w/ Special Guest Film Maker Fr3deR1cK Taylor
From Chicago to Atlanta to Los Angeles and The World. For this Southside Chicago native, the story is in the telling. Fr3deR1cK brings his exceptional filmmaking talent for capturing stories to his work traveling the world as a documentary filmmaker and photographer. His projects have led him to informal settlement villages in Nairobi, Kenya and Lusaka, Zambia and hospitals for the poor in Lima, Peru. Fr3deR1cK has documented kids in India and at risk people in South Central Los Angeles. From Hollywood to the heartland Fr3deR1cK has documented America. In Romania, Fr3deR1cK directed the documentary "After The Fall: HIV Grows Up." The film follows the stories of the survivors of the pediatric AIDS epidemic of 1989. The health crisis was recognized by the international community just days after the fall of communism. Traveling around the globe to the vibrant and exciting capital of Kenya, Fr3deR1cK went straight to Mukuru - an informal settlement/slum just outside of Nairobi that is home to over 600,000 people. The project, documenting a program called HIV FREE GENERATION, was sponsored by PEPFAR (U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief). Ambassador Sandra Thurman, former AIDS Tsar under President Bill Clinton, tapped Fr3deR1cK to direct the video for the project as part of the ongoing HIV/AIDS prevention work she does as director of The Joseph W. Blount Global Health & Society Program at Emory University. Close to his office headquarters, Fr3deR1cK has been a long-time go-to director and executive producer for Coca-Cola, The Georgia Lottery, EarthShare, UNICEF, CNN, Nike, Electronics Arts, ATL Eats, Atlanta Children's Hospital and Himalayan Children's Charities.
His current projects in production include a documentary/web series about Michael Jackson, a documentary/web series about Barack Obama, and a documentary about women boxers.
His pet project is generating new and exciting original content for the Internet. Stay tuned in and logged on for tomorrowpictures.TV . The revolution will be downloaded. Fr3deR1cK built this internet network from scratch as a place to showcase his own story content and other interesting content from fast-forward artists and policy influencers from around the world.
Fr3deR1cK was in third grade when his teacher Mrs. Pollack assigned a visualization project for his class. Little did he know at the time it was more of a socialization project. Fr3deR1cK was asked to draw a portrait of his family and then talk about it. After Fr3deR1cK drew his family he privately talked to Mrs. Pollack. This all seems pretty normal except to his surprise she was audio recording their private talk. Fr3deR1cK was unfazed by this unique teaching approach. Fr3deR1cK loved anything electronic and audio recording was no exception. Mrs. Pollack looked at his drawing of his family and came to a startling revelation. "Frederick, why did you not color in the faces of your family?" she said. Fr3deR1cK looked at the picture in question and she was correct, he did not color in his family's skin tone. He had drawn his family on white paper. Fr3deR1cK's eyes slowly met and Mrs. Pollack said directly, "Would you like to color in your family's faces in brown?" Fr3deR1cK looked back at his picture and said, "No, it does not matter." As an artist Fr3deR1cK strives to prove race and social status does not matter. We are all equal, some of us just come from different environments and circumstances. The core values that bind us as humans are the framework of the truth we seek to fill our souls. Fr3deR1cK is an artist of the soul. His desire is to find the doors of humanity and open them. Fr3deR1cK looks at the surface of complex issues and inequities and knows the answer to the problem lies deeper. With the lens of a camera his focus is the book not the cover.
Born in the 1990's as the brainchild of Fr3deR1cK and co-developed with Executive Producer Ellen Barnard, Tomorrow Pictures creates inspired media solutions for a perpetually evolving visual media marketplace. Tomorrow Pictures has produced projects all over the world; western and eastern Europe, East Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, South America, Australia, India, South Central Los Angeles, NYC, ATL, Hollywood and Chicago. Tomorrow Pictures clients have ranged from Fortune 500 companies like The Coca-Cola Company and global agencies such as BBDO. Major non-profit organizations like Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and World Bicycle Relief have benefited from Tomorrow Pictures expertise. The United States government has even called on Tomorrow Pictures to work with the State Department and PEPFAR through Emory University’s School of Public Health.
Tomorrow Pictures creates quality affordable productions for film, video, event, and web. Whether the idea is streaming on a laptop or projected on a big screen, the story is in the telling for Tomorrow Pictures. We are producers of ideas and content.
Born in the 1990's as the brainchild of Fr3deR1cK and co-developed with Executive Producer Ellen Barnard, Tomorrow Pictures creates inspired media solutions for a perpetually evolving visual media marketplace. Tomorrow Pictures has produced projects all over the world; western and eastern Europe, East Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, South America, Australia, India, South Central Los Angeles, NYC, ATL, Hollywood and Chicago. Tomorrow Pictures clients have ranged from Fortune 500 companies like The Coca-Cola Company and global agencies such as BBDO. Major non-profit organizations like Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and World Bicycle Relief have benefited from Tomorrow Pictures expertise. The United States government has even called on Tomorrow Pictures to work with the State Department and PEPFAR through Emory University’s School of Public Health.
Tomorrow Pictures creates quality affordable productions for film, video, event, and web. Whether the idea is streaming on a laptop or projected on a big screen, the story is in the telling for Tomorrow Pictures. We are producers of ideas and content.
Creators and Guests
Host
Michelle Taylor Willis
Michelle Taylor Willis is the founder of Gagnant Media. A Florida native, she is married with four sons and resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a proud graduate of the University of Florida, and is an award-winning media executive, tv host, author, speaker, and master strategist.
Guest
Fredrick "Fr3deR1cK" Taylor
Fr3deR1cK brings his exceptional filmmaking talent for capturing stories to his work traveling the world as a documentary filmmaker and photographer.
Producer
Gerrell "Yoshi" Farries
Yoshi is the Associate Producer & Co Host of "The According To Michelle Radio Show" alongside MTW. He is from the Metro Atlanta area and works in photography & videography.
