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Elaine Roberts Producer, Screenwriter and co-founder Chase Your Dreams Productions

BRAVE WILLIAMS starring in the BET Networks film â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Christmas Lottery

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ON THE COVER Photographer: Mike Ullery Dick Rice lives in Covington, Ohio. He has been employed by the Celina (Ohio) Insurance Company since 1999. Rice began playing Santa Claus in 1974. By 2007 he grew his own beard. He has been involved with the Miami County Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 58 for the past ten years, playing Santa Claus annually for the lodgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christmas Cops Shop for Kids programs among others. ÂŠ Red Silk Carpet Dec 2020

BRAVE WILLIAMS is currently starring in the BET Networks film, “The Christmas Lottery” as “Nicole”, (the middle Davenport sister). © Red Silk Carpet Dec 2020

“SANTA BABY” was produced by Johnnie "Smurf" Smith and Ivan "Orthodox" Barias with vocal productions by Kristal "Tytewriter" Oliver. “I wanted to pay homage to Eartha Kitt. Her voice has always captured me. The first time I heard her sing Santa Baby I was mesmerized by simplicity of how she delivered each line, yet it was so magical. It’s been one of my favorite songs during the holiday," shares Brave.

(VIDEO LINK) SANTA BABY by BRAVE WILLIAMS SANTA BABY by BRAVE WILLIAMS (Smartlink) THE CHRISTMAS LOTTERY (BET NETWORKS TRAILER Starring BRAVE WILLIAMS

The Christmas Lottery Synopsis: Gerald Davenport has requested that his three estranged daughters, Diedre, Nicole, and Tammy, come together for Christmas for a big announcement. He has won a $10 million dollar lottery! To get their share, the sisters must repair their broken relationship. But when their dementia-stricken mother, Diane, forgets where she hid the ticket, the Davenports are now in a race to find the ticket and fix their family all before Christmas Day. Also Starring: Reginald VelJohnson, Asia’h Epperson, Candiace Dillard Bassett, Lorenzo “Renny” Cromwell, Terayle Hill, Kay-Megan Washington, Phylicia Morgan and includes cameos from Traci Braxton, Allison Seymour, and Rob Gordon. THE CHRISTMAS LOTTERY Will be re-airing on: Monday, December 21st at 7:00pm (est) on BET on Demand

Friday, December 25th at 9:00pm (est) on BETher Check your local listings for additional airdates. THE CHRISTMAS LOTTERY (BET NETWORKS TRAILER Starring BRAVE WILLIAMS SANTA BABY by BRAVE WILLIAMS (Smartlink) CONNECT WITH BRAVE WILLIAMS: Instagram: @BmoreBrave Twitter: @BmoreBrave Facebook: /BmoreBrave

ABOUT BRAVE WILLIAMS: Call it her parents’ prophetically-ordained choice of first names for a baby girl or divinely inspired coincidence - as per textbook definitions which encompass everything from “a bit daring” and “ready to face and endure” to “without showing fear” – singer/songwriter/SAGAFTRA actress BRAVE WILLIAMS has been nothing less than courageous, spirited, determined and dauntless in her whirlwind rise to notability within the worlds of music and entertainment over the course of the past few years. Having quickly and effectively established herself as that simultaneously “sultry and edgy while everyday relatable” songstress whose “Oooh Luv Ya” and “Road Trippin’” 2015 singles set off buzzworthy online presence and fast-growing download support, in definitively brave fashion. BRAVE WILLIAMS more than lives up to the meaning of her name as she precedes her audacious, anticipated self-titled full-length debut set (a Brave New World/SRG ILS/Universal Group release) with the recent release of her ohso-sultry R&B beat-ballad latest single,

“Don’t Tell Me No.” With her now-signature self-assurance paired with a heavy dose of vocal temptress; the lovelorn, “old-school-slowgrind-meets-slinky-paced-modern-R&B” flow of “Don’t Tell Me No” finds the vocalist noted for championing her girls actually addressing the fellas this go'round, all while examining relationship “goings-on” and vulnerabilities both genders can easily relate to. “It’s completely relationship-driven,” Brave

explains, upon sharing the inspiration for the song, “based on conversations I’ve had with my sisters and best friends. Men always have this idea that they have to be strong and powerful with whatever it is that’s going on. Men are just as scared as women to fall in love. So to me, it was like a declaration to men like ‘I know you’ve been through some things that have your protective wall up, but don’t let that heartache or disappointment become your permanent identity. You can still be open to fall in love, but fear will keep that blessing from happening.’ Because there’s so much noise happening – like politics, the social climate, and things on the news – I want people to be reminded that love can slice through all of that…and kill all the noise. I want that to be welcomed, and I want people to be invited to always go back to love despite everything’s that’ going on.” Though attitude-laced, ladies’ anthemstyled singles like 2017’s bouncy, headbopping’ “U Tried It” and early 2020’s deep-bouncing’ “Options” may have empowered the ladies, she’s ultimately a fair and equal opportunity (musical) communicator. “I am so pro-women like I am always here for my girls,” she ponders upon the mention of feminism, “but I never want anyone to think or take my interpretation that I’m anti-man because I’m not anti-man. I love my men, which is why I wrote ‘Don’t Tell Me No,’ because I wanted to speak to my men like ‘I know you’re scared. I know that you can be feeling some type of way about love and relationships. But let’s do this together; don’t tell me no.’”

Largely produced by Ivan Barias (Musiq Soulchild/Mary J. Blige/Chris Brown) while Brave handled songwriting alongside co-writers Brittany Barber (John Legend/Ty Dolla/Love & HipHop Hollywood) and Kristal Tytewriter (Diddy/Chrisette Michele), multifaceted Brave’s anxiously-awaited Brave Williams full-length LP aims to make good on the promise and hoopla generated by the release of her Fearless EP (2015) and its breakthrough singles. “Ivan is part of my Philly team whom I’ve known for several years now,” she shares. “He actually produced a lot of my records on Fearless. Once we met through [our mutual manager] Michael, we just clicked. So, it’s actually Ivan and Tytewriter [I worked with]; she’s a Philly-based songwriter who’s worked with Diddy, Ledisi, and Estelle…and she’s also an engineer. So, she engineers all my sessions.” Hence, beyond the independent womanthemed “Options” and the love introspection of “Don’t Tell Me No,” the BRAVE WILLIAMS contemporary hiphop/R&B music listeners have come to know musically and melodically elaborates and narrates an everyday love journey with a debut set that manages to tell a full-fledged story. “This new album is me being totally transparent about relationships; so, I’m taking you through the beginning, the middle, and the end of relationships,” says the sassy siren of her Brave Williams debut. “Whatever those emotions are, it’s telling a complete story. So, in the beginning, when you’re extremely happy and have that full love feeling, it is something I wanted to capture with the up-tempo songs. Or going in the middle when you realize, ‘Ok, wait a second; the person I met six

months ago has left the building,’ and it’s like, “Who is this guy? Let’s not forget that I still need you to treat me like you treated me in the beginning.’ And it takes you all the way to the end, whatever the end might be; if you’re happy, there are happy songs on there. If it’s a breakup or even some of my own trials and tribulations that’s I’ve experienced in relationships, I’ve definitely penned those songs. It’s kinda like a diary…..a relationship diary [which is a bit scary].” As it turns out, the seeds for her talent and penchant for storytelling can be traced to her early Baltimore, Marylandbased childhood…more specifically in the back-seat of her Mom and Dad’s red Chevy, on a day she vividly recalls hearing legendary rapper Tupac’s “Keep Ya Head Up.” “I remember it like it was yesterday; I was mesmerized,” Brave recounts. “I know that I had heard hip-hop before that moment, but that was the first time that it really resonated with me, and I started writing. I really just started writing poems. I had no idea I could sing because I started out rapping.” Always quick to showcase her rapping and spoken word skills at open mics, she confesses that she stumbled onto the notion that she could sing upon trying to turn one of the raps she’d written into a song. That epiphany spurred a newfound exploration and appreciation of the R&B of her generation (“I love Faith Evans, Jill Scott since her first album and ‘What’s the 411?’ by Mary J, because she was like the perfect marriage of hip-hop and R&B”), as well as more classic R&B from the likes of Stevie Wonder, Bobby Caldwell and one of her idols, 80s singer/songwriter/musician Patrice Rushen.

Armed with her newfound appreciation of soul/R&B and burgeoning songwriting talent while honing her singing chops, characteristically ballsy go-getter Brave ventured and dared to develop her craft partaking in countless local open mics, one of which permanently changed the direction of her life and fast-forming music career. “Someone in the crowd pulled me aside after I got off stage [one night] and said ‘I wanna introduce you to a producer in D.C. who’s looking for an artist,’” she recounts. “From that, I was introduced to [producer] Rich Harrison (Beyonce/Amerie), I signed a solo deal with Columbia Records, and I never let them know that I had just learned how to sing two weeks before.” Thus the spirited determination which defines her very name arose, in which case she admittedly “faked it. I was like, ‘Yeah, I could sing,’ and once I got in the studio, they could tell I was undeveloped. So once ‘the cat was out the bag,’ I knew I didn’t want to lose my deal, but I needed to put myself around singers so I could grow. So that’s how I came up with Richgirl.” Signed to Jive Records, though the female quartet (which also included fellow siren Sevyn Streeter) captured the attention of an immediately awestruck urban audience with their mad-tight Harrison-produced “He Ain’t Wit Me Now,” which fans concluded should have been huge and remains a multimillion-viewed VEVO music clip, the group never quite got off the ground. However, when you’re the living and breathing synonym for the word “brave” – in fact, indomitable – you move one, following your creativity and passion where fate takes you. In the case of BRAVE WILLIAMS, that meant persistently pursuing her dreams, adeptly learning from her experiences and exposure, and seizing opportunities presented until that eventual “right place, right time” scenario. “It was because of that experience [with the group] that I got the

knowledge to start my own label,” admits Brave, “just to learn the administrative work a major label actually does. To learn the type of work that’s required of an artist…like the long hours and tour life. It gave me tools to really navigate and properly start my own label (Brave New World). That’s what I did after the group disbanded, and then that’s when I put out my first song, ‘Ooh Luv Ya.’ Then I hired everyone I needed [like a street team], the PR and ‘this and that’ to get that song on the radio. And so when that started playing on the radio, that’s what got the attention of R&B Divas (TV-One reality show).” Like a fast-rolling, momentumbuilding snowball, Brave commenced to not only recording her Fearless EP with subsequent singles and landed noted acting roles in VH-1’s CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story biopic, BET’s Angrily Ever After, her first leading role in Netflix’s Love Dot Com and BET’s The Christmas Lottery (alongside Greenleaf ’s Asia Epperson and Family Matters’ Reginald Vel Johnson), but embarked on her passion for philanthropy through hands-on work and involvement with Associated Black Charities, the Baltimore area’s St. Francis Mentorship Program, and City Women’s Shelter, acting as Ambassador/lead trainer for the Steve & Marjorie Harvey Girls Who Rule The World girls’ mentorship program (for 200 young girls from around the world); and advocating health, fitness training, and wellness through her very own Brave Williams Fitness Club. The club’s specialization in weight loss, diet nutrition, personal training, tailored fitness plans, and increasing muscle mass is a personal passion she takes quite seriously, and a source of great pride given its results in her local community.

“In the last two years I’ve transformed 3,200 bodies,” proudly shares ISSAlicensed (International Sports and Science) certified trainer, Brave, “from women who were morbidly obese and those who’ve suffered from diabetes to heart palpitations and other illnesses. It’s always my goal to get them off the various medications and another thing that I’m really passionate about.” In the meantime, music listeners can also rest assured that same exact level of creative passion was invested into every song that comprises her curiouslyawaited Brave Williams debut collection. “I wanted to be transparent in my moment and that was the moment of writing this album and reflecting on everything. I want people to relate to it. I want to be able to inspire the people who hear the songs. And if they’re in that type of relationship at that time, they can use some of my records as navigation on how to handle what they’re feeling. My whole purpose is to inspire.” Sounds to me like the musical mission taken on by beautiful and multi-talented BRAVE WILLIAMS was much more than accomplished. The World girls’ mentorship program (for 200 young girls from around the world); and advocating health, fitness training and wellness through her very own Brave Williams Fitness Club. The club’s specialization in weight loss, diet nutrition, personal training, tailored fitness plans and increasing muscle mass is a personal passion she takes quite seriously, and a source of great pride given its results in her local community. “In the last two years I’ve transformed 3,200 bodies,” proudly shares ISSA-

licensed (International Sports and Science) certified trainer, Brave, “from women who were morbidly obese and those who’ve suffered from diabetes, to heart palpitations and other illnesses. It’s always my goal to get them off the various medications and another thing that I’m really passionate about.” In the meantime, music listeners can also rest assured that same exact level of creative passion was invested into every song that comprises her curiouslyawaited Brave Williams debut collection. “I wanted to be transparent in my moment and that was the moment of writing this album and reflecting on everything. I want people to relate to it. I want to be able to inspire the people who hear the songs. And if they’re in that type of relationship at that time, they can use some of my records as navigation on how to handle what they’re feeling. My whole purpose is to inspire.” Sounds to me like the musical mission taken on by beautiful and multi-talented BRAVE WILLIAMS was much more than accomplished. For additional information on BRAVE WILLIAMS, please contact Ra-Fael Blanco at 2Rs Entertainment & Media PR (for the SRG ILS Group) at 646.326.4803 or via email at TwoRsEnt@aol.com. instagram twitter ©2020 2R's Entertainment & Media PR | 601 W. 135th Street #6E New York, NY 10031

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Maria Daniela Rallo My name's Maria Daniela Rallo (alias NiliathSFX). I was born in Romania on 14h August 1986 and was adopted by a Sicilian couple. I started to develop a passion for novels and wrote short stories. Since I was a child, I loved art, fashion, and esthetic art and began to collaborate with many brands. In 2005 I was a colleague on Sicily Journal (a most important Italian press).

started to grow many followers on Instagram and most popular social media. After four years, I began transformation makeup about cinemas characters and celebrities (like Micheal Jackson and Johnny Deep). In 2018 I began studying Makeup Artistry, receiving a top qualifying high score. Then in 2020, I attended the University of Science and Communication.

In 2010 I started a YouTuber carrier, creating a makeup video tutorial, including mystery and horror. Now I continue to work on YouTube channel (NiliathSFX) and have

I now collaborate with famous brands as an ambassador for high-end sports, jewelry, and the fashion industry.

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Katongole William Victor Kwillz Fraternity is a Non-Profit Entertainment Organization that majors in Fashion Show and Pageantry Production across the World and is considered Africa's greatest Fashion Show and Pageantry Production Company. We offer a variety of services, from brand development and directing to model management, training, and scouting. Our mission is to help youth and all-in need adults discover their skills, competency, and talents in order to alleviate poverty and to enable them to develop their talents in Modeling, Fashion Designing, Film Acting, and Music. That way, the world would be a better place for them to live in.

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Elaine Roberts

Elaine Roberts In addition to being a remarkably talented all-rounder across the performing arts, screenwriting, and production (not to mention accounting, finance, and business law), Elaine Roberts is a Producer, Screenwriter, and co-founder of Chase Your Dreams Productions. Elaine has always loved to perform and create. She feels like it was ingrained in her from when she was born. She learned to dance many styles but became most fond of Latin style and belly dancing, which she practiced throughout the years. A gifted musician, the ability to hear a song and play it almost instantly led to learning the piano at seven years of age and ultimately composing. She came to appreciate a wide range of musical styles; her particular favorites were the soundtracks to the movies of the day. Her musical talents fed into her writing as she started to write poetry and lyrics. She also loved to draw and create, toying with the idea of becoming an artist for Disney, which played a significant role in her childhood. She recalls fun times visiting the Disney Theme parks with the family several times a year. In addition to her musical, dancing and writing talents, her single-mindedness to use a 6th-grade teacher's slight towards her acting ambitions as a motivation, perhaps made it inevitable that Elaine would one-day find herself involved in filmmaking.

VHS. Her favorite film was Gone with the Wind. A critic in the making, Elaine remembers it to be the first film that actually felt "complete." The richness and depth of characters, the addressing of social issues, the lifedefining event of war. The struggles of love and relationships and a love triangle that revealed all sides. It was her first time truly reflecting on the intricacies of writing and making a film, even more so, how producer David O. Selznick managed to follow his beliefs and produce a four-hour movie. Elaine was a voracious reader, which only fueled her imagination. She remembers with particular fondness Sunday trips to Waldenbooks with her parents and sister to buy the book adaptations of her favorite films. If no book was available, she'd seek out the screenplay; Titanic was enormous, but it was, as she recalls, the stimulus to look and study screenplays seriously. Having written a number of short stories while at school, her first attempt at screenwriting was in college, which gave some indication of her potential. She won a local competition; her creative talents were getting noticed.

Elaine grew up loving movies, particularly the screen classics which she'd record to

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Elaine may have taken a different path to the film world had she decided to travel to Hollywood at 18 and pursue the offers established by her agent. Having lost her mother to cancer when just 14, it was growing up with her dad, who was fascinated by cameras and filming that would set her on a path from performing to creating. Growing up around computers, she became techsavvy; she learned to film, edit; and as technology evolved. She conquered the art of web-designing by populating websites with the material she produced. Though she freelanced pursuing her creative talents for a while, Elaine's passion for business, which she attributes to her father's mechanic business, took her into Corporate America, where she learned accounting and finance (University of Miami - Finance and Business Law, 2018). Taking her business knowledge and experience, she co-founded her production company, Chase Your Dreams Productions. As Elaine, more than most would testify, the path we take to fulfilling our dreams rarely takes us smoothly to our destination. Those early years were exciting and busy, with lots of scripts written and developed, between supporting a family member through illhealth and even going back to school. However, in 2013, she put her energy into chasing her particular filmmaking dreams. The first short film One Last Breath was made in 2015. Though pregnant with her son Remy at the time curtailed attending film festivals, One Last Breath was selected to be a part of the 2015 Paterson Falls and Flathead Lake International Cinemafest events. Additionally, it received a screening invitation by the Miami Indie Film Festival and was officially invited by

Holly Shorts. The One Last Breath screenplay was also a semi-finalist in the American Gem's International Screenplay Writing Contest.

She also produced and released her first feature film O2 Negative: Death and Rebirth of Seeker 4143, in 2018 to critical acclaim. It won the 22nd Season of the Calcutta International Cult Film Festival and was nominated at the Golden Fox Awards. It was also officially selected in the 2018 Prince of Prestige Academy Awards and 2018 Auckland International Film Festival and received an Honorable Mention at the Silver Scream Film & Comic Festival. Elaine attributes the fearless pursuit of her dreams - and the unwavering belief that everyone can succeed in their own area, in their own time, in their own way - to her mom. She describes creating movies and music as traveling to a dream-like place where everything good is possible, believing stories can give others hope, inspiration, and the motivation to keep going. She is currently adapting one of her books she authored (first of a trilogy) into a film script - an espionage action movie. She is also working on a thriller and a sci-fi thriller based on true events called The Unforgettable Ride. Prior to COVID, she had planned to film the short sci-fi this spring but postponed until this Fall. In April, she partnered with distributor Hossein Panahi, founder of HPD Media, and is now working on producing and distributing several projects - one of which is

O2 Negative: Death and Rebirth of Seeker 4143, a sci-fi TV series, and "The Pill," a short film being filmed in Barcelona, Spain.

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ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES IN LOS ANGELES INSTALLS THE ONLY SURVIVING SHARK MODEL FROM THE 1975 FILM JAWS

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures completed installation of one of the most iconic objects from its permanent collection, the only surviving full-scale shark model from the 1975 Oscar®-winning film Jaws. This moment signals exciting momentum toward the Academy Museum’s much-anticipated opening on April 30,2021, where the 25-foot model (nicknamed “Bruce the Shark”) will be on view, free to the public. Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg, won Oscars® for Film Editing, Sound and Original Score, and was nominated for Best Picture at the 48th Academy Awards® in 1976. Week-long installation completed Friday, November 20, 2020 Academy Museum of Motion Pictures 6067 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036

YOUTUBE VIDEO “It’s been a long journey for Bruce since he was acquired in 2016, and we couldn’t be happier to welcome him to his new home,” said Bill Kramer, Director, and President of the Academy Museum. “We look forward to our opening when museum visitors can engage with our exhibitions, experience our beautiful Renzo Piano-designed building and come face to face with one of the most iconic characters in film history.”

ABOUT THE OBJECT The monumental model is the fourth, final, and only surviving version of the shark model derived from the original Jaws mold. The creation of the infamous mechanical shark—which Spielberg is rumored to have named "Bruce" after his lawyer—was tasked to art director Joe Alves, whose original schematics depict the 25-foot-long body, 400-pound head, and jaws nearly five feet wide. The three screen-used production molds cast in latex and rubber rotted and were destroyed. The Academy Museum's version, cast in fiberglass for photo opportunities at Universal Studios Hollywood surrounding the film's 1975 release, survived at Universal until 1990 when it found its way to Nathan Adlen's family's junkyard business in Sun Valley, California. In 2010, it was authenticated by Roy Arbogast, a member of the original Jaws film's special effects crew. In 2016, the Academy Museum acquired the shark model through a contribution by Nathan Adlen. The museum worked with special effects and makeup artist Greg Nicotero, co-founder of KNB EFX, to meticulously restore the fiberglass shark that had deteriorated from being outdoors for 25 years. The conservation is now complete, and the Academy Museum has undertaken the complex task of moving the largest object from its collection on site. Since the shark is so large, it is unable to fit in the museum's elevators. Instead, a team of art handlers, engineers, and

construction workers removed two panels from the Saban Building's curtain wall of glass and expertly craned Bruce into the building. Bruce's dramatic new home is suspended 30 feet above the third floor of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano-designed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, where the public can enjoy it once again. In its new location, Bruce will be visible from many vantage points within the museum and to passersby outside on Fairfax Avenue and 6th Street.

AT A GLANCE • Dimensions: 84 3/4" (H) x 54" (W) x 288 1/2" (D) • Weight: 1208 lbs • Materials: fiberglass body, acrylic paint with urethane top-coat, urethane plastic (teeth), acrylic (eyes), steel support (internal structure) • Restoration: 7-month restoration performed by Greg Nicotero, a special effects and makeup artist and coFounder of the award-winning KNB EFX Group. • Fourth shark cast and last one surviving from the original shark mold for Jaws (1975) • 116 teeth • At 25 feet long, this is the largest object in the Academy Museum's collection, which also includes an underwater apparatus and fin used in Jaws and Jaws II. • Acquired by the Academy Museum in 2016 https://www.oscars.org/museum/o nly-surviving-jaws-shark-acquiredacademy-museum