The Multi-Hyphenate Filmmaker Workshop

The Multi-Hyphenate Filmmaker Workshop

The Multihyphenate Filmmaker Workshop offers aspiring and emerging filmmakers a practical framework for successfully creating films while filling multiple key creative roles. Through case studies, planning exercises, and industry insights from established multi-hyphenate filmmakers, participants will learn how to navigate the complex balance of wearing different hats, maintaining creative continuity, and leveraging the advantages of being a multi-hyphenate filmmaker while avoiding common pitfalls. Perfect for creators who want to take control of their filmmaking journey while understanding when and how to collaborate effectively.

Join multi-hyphenate filmmakers Timothy Mark Davis and Edson Jean, who both just premiered feature films where they served as director, writer, producer, and lead actor, for a no-BS workshop that includes an honest keynote on the mindset needed to wear multiple hats and script to screen case studies using scenes from Edson and Tim's films!

Includes a small bites and drinks networking reception on the patio immediately following the workshop.

Funding for this workshop provided by the Broward County Cultural Division.
Co-hosted by the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and Savor Cinema.

Timothy Mark Davis is a film and theatre Actor/Director/Producer based in Broward County. Recently, he premiered his multi-hyphenate feature debut, Thank You, Places!, at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (2024). In 2021 he wrote, directed, produced, and acted in the short film The Leap for the 48 Hour Film Project which garnered awards for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actress. Previously, he produced and co-starred in the feature film, Pompano Boy, which premiered at the Heartland Film Festival and received the Best in Broward Award at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. He is also the Producing Artistic Director of New City Players, a professional, ensemble-based theatre company staging classic and contemporary plays in Fort Lauderdale. Learn more about his film and theatre work at timothymarkdavis.com and sign up for his monthly newsletter here.

Edson Jean is a Haitian-American Actor/Writer/Director whose debut feature film Ludi, premiered at SXSW (2021). Jean is a Gotham Narrative Lab alum and served as a consultant in the writer's room with Issa Rae’s Rap Sh!t on HBOMax. Jean was nominated for a Streamy and Mipcom award for directing all eight half-hour episodes of his dramedy, Grown, for Complex Networks. He also wrote, directed, and starred in The Adventures of Edson Jean, which aired on HBO after its participation in the ABFF/ HBO Short Film Competition. His second feature film, Know Me, inspired by the true events that took place on the Miami Causeway in 2012, just had its world premiere at Slamdance (2025) with a follow up festival screening at the Miami Film Festival (2025)