Slated: Talk Thursdays With Filmmakers

Producing Your Project with Emmy and Peabody Award—winning producer Denise Greene

Emmy Award—winning producer Crystal Whaley curates and moderates a series of conversations with leaders from film and digital content spheres. Each episode of this four-part series serves up insights and strategies for the business of production, discussed among titans in the field who also happen to be friends.

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Denise A. Greene is an Emmy and Peabody award—winner who recently produced a tribute video for Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in honor of film legend Charles Burnett, and produced Byron Hurt’s feature documentary on hazing.

Previously, Denise helped launch Orlando Bagwell’s company with its inaugural projects, New York Times-Op Doc When Music Turns Deadly and feature documentary Gil Scott Heron.

Before joining LakeHouse, Denise produced two shows for WNET’s series Pioneers of Thirteen (2014), which were both nominated for Emmys. Denise’s documentary career began at the preeminent documentary company Blackside Inc., with docs, I’ll Make Me A World and Malcolm X: Make it Plain.

Currently, Denise is the Director of the New Media Institute NBPC (currently known as Black Public Media), an extensive online and hands-on program training professional filmmakers in the latest digital technologies.

Crystal Whaley is a multiple Emmy Award—winning creative producer and development executive. Owner and Creative Director of Plan C Media Group, she’s also former VP of Development and Production of Pixel Media LLC/Lionsgate as well as a former senior producer for Sesame Workshop, former director of video production for Arista Records, and former executive producer of Free Spirit Films Inc.

Crystal is a published photographer and an accomplished curator of the annual “For Us, By Us” at The Long Gallery Harlem in February 2017- 2020, ALTAR: Prayer, Ritual, Offering at Photoville NYC in Sept. 2018 & Photoville Los Angeles April 2019 as well as curator for the HBCU’s Art Talk/Date: Kerry James Marshall at the MET Breuer.

She’s the producer & deputy editor of critically acclaimed photo books; MFON: Woman Photographers of the African Diaspora in 2017 and Black Joy and Resistance in 2018 as well as the founder of the forthcoming curatorial project, M’Dear: Reclaiming Our Seat at the Table.

Crystal holds a Journalism degree from Howard University and a Film Production Certificate from New York University.