Pamela holds a B.A. in Film/T.V. Production from USC and currently helms her indie production company, Brass Ring Enterprises. She recently directed, produced and co-wrote “No Name” music video for artists Chef Sean featuring Jeremih (2020). She also directed, produced and co-wrote the promotional video for the 2019 Pacific Regional Boule. In 2018, she directed, produced and co-wrote a television pilot presentation “BFA New Orleans” screened at the TLC Chinese Theater in January 2019. In 2017 she was a producer on “Harland Williams Presents Caramel Corn the Pug”, the shoot of a comedy routine and skits featuring comedian/ actor/voiceover artist Harland Williams (“Sausage Party”, 2016) for Piltdown Pictures and Tvacom Film & TV. Through Brass Ring she directed and produced the sizzle reel entitled “Nature’s Best” (2017) hosted by “Dr. Dave” Pryor, former Medical Director for NBC, and also “Celebrity Fit and Fabulous” (2015) reality show pilot and sizzle reel also hosted by Dr. Dave that featured Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson and NFL Network anchor Erin Coscarelli.
She also co-directed, produced and co-wrote the vampire film “Teeth and Blood” (2015) (RobStar Entertainment), starring Glenn Plummer and Michelle Vanderwater. She directed and produced “Breast Health Awareness: We Can’t Afford to Wait” video for Anthem Blue Cross/Wellpoint subsidiaries for Breast Health Awareness month, October 2012. Other projects produced through Brass Ring include: director/producer/writer of the documentary film “GOLD DIGGIN’: For Love of Money”, screened at Cannes 2008, was the featured film for Women’s Indies Night in the African Diaspora Film Festival 2008 and was in the Mid-Atlantic Film Festival in 2010. It features Todd Bridges, Miguel Nunez, Jr., and Silkski of Wu-Tang Clan. She wrote, produced and directed a sizzle reel for a reality TV series entitled “GOLD DIGGERS: Wanna Play, Gotta Pay” (2012) based on the documentary. Pamela and Jim Petersen directed, produced and wrote “The Wonder Kids” documentary film in 2008, featuring Dick Van Dyke, Savion Glover, Debbie Allen and Maurice Starr, among others, and won Best Documentary in the New York International Independent Film Festival (2008), was in the Pan African Film Festival (2009) and the Women’s International Film Festival (2011). Pamela was a producer on and wrote a 7-minute feature film trailer for their screenplay “HydrauliX” (2005).
The editor/author of books and articles focusing on social and economic disparities, as well as autobiographies, she is also active in community activities with educational, service, and civil rights organizations. She has served on the boards of Origins Marketing Sports Management Company, the Maryland Christian Community Development Association, the YWCA of the National Capital Area, the Washington DC Health Task Force for D.C. Public Schools, and the African American Health Task Force Communications Network.
At a young age Pamela worked as a director’s assistant on the feature film “The Ladies Club” (aka “Violated”) (1986) and at Walt Disney Productions in film advertising. She went on to become an Associate Producer for KNBC-TV in Los Angeles on shows “Headlines on Trial”, “The Stanley Seigel” show, and TV specials “No Time to Grow Old” and “Family Portraits: Take 2”. She worked in development for Embassy Films, Gladden Entertainment and Taft Entertainment, where she also worked on the T.V. shows “You Again” with Jack Klugman and John Stamos and “Throb” with Diana Canova and Jane Leeves. Through the ‘90s, she went from production coordinator to producer and/or production manager and sometimes director for several music videos, commercials and PSAs. Projects include Montel Jordan’s “Daddy’s Home” and “Somethin’ For the Honeys”, featuring Red Man” (Pop Art Film Factory), Dr. Dre’s “Forgot About Dre” featuring Eminem (Geronimo Film Prods.), Birch Mob’s “Money Ain’t Everything, It’s the Only Thing” (P&A Films/Brass Ring Enterprises), music videos Freddie Jackson (Pop Art Film Factory) and British pop artist Serena (Silas World Pictures); Sunny Delight commercials (Orbit Entertainment), anti-drinking PSAs (Zebra Films).
A prolific writer, in 2016, Pamela wrote the treatment for a three-part TV mini-series that went into production in 2019. Pamela won an American Film Institute Black screenwriting award for “Thicker Than Water” in 1990 and was a quarter finalist in the Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Contest (2010) for her compelling drama “The Quality of Life”. She was commissioned to write the screenplay adaptation of Wisconsin policeman Syl Harris’ autobiography, “A Reason for Being” in 1996, as well as “A.I.D.S.: A Family in Crisis” for Cal. State Long Beach. Pamela has also ghostwritten for film and worked as a freelance writer for music and entertainment-related magazines, interviewing stars like Brian McKnight and Cedric the Entertainer.