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HOOD TO HOLLYWOOD
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PRINCESS MONIQUE FILMZ
DIRECTOR • WRITER • AUTHOR • SPEAKER
​Transform the room.
Move people from inspiration to action.
Keynotes and live conversations from a working television and film director. Hollywood, entrepreneurship, storytelling, leadership, and reinvention, brought to your stage.
Available for conferences, corporations, universities, festivals, and international engagements.
FOR EVENT PLANNERS
What should your audience leave with?
Princess brings more than 20 years of entertainment, leadership, entrepreneurship, mentorship, and lived experience to the stage, helping audiences move from inspiration to action.
Clarity
A clear picture of what they want and what it takes.
Courage
Permission to stop waiting and start.
Action
A next step they can take this week.
Reinvention
A way to begin again without starting over.
Leadership
Tools to lead people, sets, and teams with purpose.
Creative Confidence
Trust in their own voice and vision.
Practical AI Adoption
Real ways to use AI in their work tomorrow.
Experience Into Opportunity
How to turn what they’ve lived into what they build.
You’re not booking a speech. You’re investing in what your people do after they leave the room.
SPEAKING REEL
See her in the room.
REEL COMING SOON
Keynotes, audience moments, stage and media appearances, and career highlights.
THE MESSAGE
Stop waiting to be discovered.
Discover yourself.
Princess Monique Filmz brings what she has learned directing television and film, building companies, and creating her own opportunities into rooms ready to move. Hollywood, entrepreneurship, storytelling, leadership, and reinvention, from someone who has lived every chapter.
THE PLATFORM
Built on set. Brought to the stage.
Princess does not talk about Hollywood from the outside. She directs it. Her credits span network and premium television, and she continues to develop original films, books, and platforms through Princess Filmz Productions.
Every talk draws from that work. She shows audiences how to stop waiting for permission, recognize the value they already carry, position themselves with intention, and create the opportunities no one is going to hand them.
“This book will give you the tools that you need to stop waiting to be discovered & discover yourself.”
STEVE HARVEY
SIGNATURE KEYNOTES
Three talks. One philosophy.
Each keynote is built on an established pillar of Princess's work.
Keynote 01
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Career Development for Creatives & Entertainment Professionals
Build a career that lasts.
How working creatives build careers that last: reading the industry, preparing for the rooms that matter, and moving from waiting on a break to building a body of work.
DESIGNED FOR
Film schools, entertainment companies, creative industry conferences, emerging talent programs.
How opportunities actually move in television and film
How to prepare so the room finds you ready
How to build relationships that open doors
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Keynote 02
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Creative Entrepreneurship & Creating Your Own Opportunities
Create your own opportunity.
The shift from asking for permission to building ownership. Princess breaks down how credits, stories, and relationships can become companies, intellectual property, and platforms.
DESIGNED FOR
Entrepreneurs, creators, women's organizations, business conferences, universities.
Identify the assets you already own
Turn one skill into multiple opportunities
Use AI and modern tools as leverage, never as a replacement for your voice
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Keynote 03
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Self-Discovery, Purpose & Reinvention
Stop waiting. Discover yourself.
The heart of Hood to Hollywood. A personal, cinematic talk about the road from Cleveland to Hollywood and what it takes to stop waiting to be discovered and discover yourself.
DESIGNED FOR
Corporate teams, leadership retreats, women's and community organizations, youth and education programs.
Name what you carry and why it matters
Treat setbacks as story, not verdict
Leave with a next step you can take this week
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EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE MIC
Lived it. Built it. Teaches it.
Princess brings more than 20 years in entertainment to every stage. Audiences hear from a working television director and DGA leader who has built a career through more than one reinvention, and who teaches from experience, not theory.
20+ years in entertainment
Television directing
DGA leadership
Entrepreneurship
Mentorship
Author
Practical AI education
Career reinvention
SELECTED STAGES & APPEARANCES
Already in the room.
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SPEAKER
Pan African Film Festival
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DGA AASC tribute to Kasi Lemmons, 2023. Photo: Howard Wise / DGA
CO-CHAIR, AASC EVENTS
DGA Industry Panels & Conversations
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FROM PRINCESS
INVITED FEATURED PANELIST
Southwest Actors Conference, Arizona
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WORKSHOPS & TEACHING
Directing Episodic Television
Conferences, festivals, and industry rooms where Princess has been invited to speak, teach, and moderate.
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MODERATOR
Sistas Are Doin’ It For Themselves
BHERC Short Film Showcase, Los Angeles
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PANELIST
SHORTLIST Filmmaker Panels
WHY BOOK PRINCESS MONIQUE FILMZ
Why bring her into the room?
Event organizers get a working filmmaker with a clear message and the lived experience to back it up.
Conferences
A keynote that opens in Hollywood and closes on action.
Companies & organizations
Leadership lessons from running a set, where every department must align.
Entertainment audiences
A working director's inside view of how careers are built.
Entrepreneurs & creatives
How to turn skills and stories into ownership and opportunity.
Schools & leadership programs
A path from waiting for permission to building with purpose.
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Working television and film director
Credits across ABC, NBC, STARZ, FOX, OWN, BET+, Disney, Prime, and Lifetime.
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Producer and writer
She develops stories from the page to the screen and knows how ideas become finished work.
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Author of Hood to Hollywood
Her book turns the philosophy behind her talks into a framework audiences can take home.
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Founder and entrepreneur
Princess Filmz Productions and the Hood to Hollywood platform: book, podcast, and community.
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Mentor to creatives
Through Real Black Unicorns, she mentors and builds community for the next generation of talent.
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Storyteller with strategy
She pairs lived experience, from Cleveland to Hollywood, with practical steps people can use the next day.
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