Maurice Jamal

Maurice Jamal is the award-winning director behind the successful films The Ski Trip, Dirty Laundry and Friends & Lovers. He's been nominated for both GLAAD and NAACP Image Awards. He's been listed in OUT Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Gays in America; BET's 25 Most Important Black Gays and BET's Top Gays in Entertainment. He's been profiled in The Advocate, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and CNN. Mr. Jamal is also the first openly gay Black actor/writer to be profiled and referred to as a gay American in the mainstream urban media sources Black Enterprise, Ebony and JET. In 2010 he founded the GLO Television Network, Americans first Urban LGBT television network. With a full slate of digital and high definition programs, GLO TV is the preeminent source for Urban LGBT entertainment and launches two new entertainment divisions in 2011. Among his charitable endeavors is advocacy work for HIV/AIDS, Teen Literacy and LGBT Equality. He currently sits on the Board of Directors for Blackhouse at the Sundance