DeForest Mapp
The Austin Film Festival Advances "Vanity" in Its Script Competition.
Next year will be mark 10 years since Prince's passing. Here is an intimate female-driven feature that leads up to the making of "Purple Rain", inspired by the life of Denise Matthews. She was the woman who was supposed to play the lead opposite Prince instead of Apollonia, but Denise somehow slipped through Prince's guitar strings at the last minute.
Filmmaker
"Do They Fit?" (Short - Cannes 2016)
2008 San Francisco. An ever so polite well-connected African American female tech exec. runs into her scribe ex at an Obama fundraiser. If she can get him to find a suit for Obama’s Neighborhood Ball, “DC here we come!” But has he put their unsettled past to rest?
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Senior Producer | Unscripted Television
The best TV is usually found at the beginning and end of a take. I am the first eyes to create story from absolutely nothing. Story producing is the art of constructing the bones of a story - scene by scene. If done properly, editors go home early. And EP's get fewer notes from the network. Hot mics are our friends! I've been hired to work in LA, NYC, Virginia, the Bay Area and remotely from Montana.
Journalist
"No hollow adjectives" - a Northwestern | Medill Professor
Appointed by the Creator over 8 billion years ago, Kaylandria - Guardian of the Earth - went missing somewhere in another universe, shows up inside the forbidden Perimeter and now comes to this Earth. She seeks out mother-to-be Latrice Foster and her husband Rick, a space-traveling HBCU science professor. Kaylandria is determined to invite Latrice into her mystic Virginia home to prevent a plot to steal the Yeswe' - a powerful stone from the Creator that holds the Earth together.
Tech
Side Street is a platform that allows users to socialize around their favorite television shows and more. Based on Mapp's career in producing television, Side Street is truly the Best Way to Watch Television.
DeForest holds a Master of Science in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, an MBA and a B.S. in Architectural Engineering - both from Tennessee State University.