CAROLINA FILM NETWORK SOCIETY (CFNS)

 Ashley is a compulsory artist and maker with over 15 years of experience with dance and community development. She started Sage Studios with a few key concepts in mind: sustainability, diversity, and inclusivity. She uses our main studio to teach her own style of fusion dance with her company, Tiny Coven (there's a whole story there that you can learn about over a glass of prosecco). She has many artistic interests that she claims are all related: dance, silversmithing, watercolor painting, percussion studies, and macrame. 

Preach Jacobs is a hip-hop artist, writer, SC Press Association Award Winner, and Cola-Con founder, the nation's only hip-hop/comic convention. His music has been featured on NPR and Okayplayer. He has a podcast, 'The Negro League' on his Mo' Betta Soul network that includes event programming in the southeast.

His latest column is featured in the Columbia weekly Free-Times titled "Fight the Power," speaking about hip-hop, politics, and social awareness. 

Tangie Brickhouse-Beaty, born and raised in Norwalk, CT,  is the founder/CEO of WOW (Walking on Water) Productions, CEO of Brickbeat Agency and the Executive Director of WOW Performing Arts Center, all in Columbia, SC. 

With over 18 years of experience, Tangie, a national award winning playwright, film writer and director that has produced over 25 productions and co-written/co-directed 3 films (two of which won 1st place in a Jasper Film Festival). As well as a Casting Director with credits that include feature and short films, stage plays, commercials, voiceover and web-series projects across the nation.  Tangie received a national distribution deal for her first stage play, Yesterday Is Still Gone, awarded Best Stage Play Director at the Kingdomwood Christian Film Festival, listed as The Top 12 Most Interesting Minorities of 2013, selected as SC Black Pages as Top 40 Under 40 in SC, awarded Best Theatre Production Company and Best Theatre Director by Black Women in Jazz and Arts in Atlanta, GA and more. Tangie has made her mark in history as opening the first Urban Black Box Theatre in the state of SC owned by a woman. Tangie is on the Executive  

Board of Directors of Urban Playwrights United, a mentorship group to over 2000 playwrights nationwide. She is also a Business Advisor for the Benedict College Women’s Business Center.  In 2017, Tangie founded the non-profit agency, WOW Performing Arts Center, an agency geared to helping actors, writers and directors in telling their story to the best of their ability. Tangie received a certification as a Film Producer and Line Producer from the Film Institute of Hollywood, AS Degree in Computerized Accounting from Gibbs College, and a Human Resources Certification from Yale University.  Tangie is married to Thomas Beaty for 24 years,  has 2 sons - James and Isaiah and an adorable grandson, Elijah.

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Curtis Caesar John is an arts manager, advocate, and filmmaker. He believes in cinema as one of the most powerful means of sharing life's stories and furthering our understanding of one another, even within our own cultures.  He is the Founder and Executive Director of The Luminal Theater, a nomadic microcinema that brings Black independent films directly to Black communities and audiences, as well as to general audiences interested and invested in the Black cinematic voices.

Terrance Roseborough is a filmmaker from Camden, SC. He studied film at The Art Institute for a while then transferred to The University of South Carolina where he would become a member of The Conqueror Movement, a communications platform for black millennials. Under the Conqueror Movement umbrella, Terrance has co-directed and produced several works including: “Find Your Light”, a Conqueror Movement documentary that documents the self care journey and falling into what feels right to you spiritually, even if it’s not the path others want you to take. He’s also worked on “What is Masculinity?” – a docuseries that takes a hard look at personal relationships, stereotypes and misconceptions of young Black men.

He currently serves as Director of Operations for Freedom Festival International for two years and has credits as a sound operator for the independent feature Shenanigans.