Honoree

The Color of Medicine Producers:
Joyce Marie Fitzpatrick, Brian Shackelford, Rebecca Robinson, Flatcat Productions, and Tunnel Vizion Entertainment

Joyce Marie Fitzpatrick, Executive Producer and Co-Director: Joyce, a native of Indianapolis, Indiana is an award-winning Producer/Writer/Director who en-joys a career in television production, film and promotion in Los Angeles, California. She graduated with honors from California State University of Los Angeles with a Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunications and Film, and has worked for ABC, NBC, CW, UPN network, PBS, E! Entertainment, and Black Entertainment Television (BET).

Brian Shackelford, Co-Producer and Co-Director: Brian’s post production background includes over 600 hours of original, non-fiction programming for the following companies: 20th Century Fox, VH1, MTV, 51 Minds Entertainment, 44 Blue, Ryan Seacrest Productions, World of Wonder, T Group Productions, Electus, Scott Sternberg Productions, and Down In Front Entertainment. In 2008, Shackel-ford created Tunnel Vizion Entertainment, a production and postproduction com-pany specializing in giving lower budgeted projects the look and feel of high-end productions.

Rebecca Robinson, Co-Producer: Rebecca studied fashion design in Atlanta, Ga. and continued her education at North Carolina Central University where she ma-jored in Visual Communications. Her background also includes art history, print-making, photography, graphic design and creative marketing. Rebecca is mostly known for her fashion design company psnob.com, which launched in 2001. In 2016, Rebecca started her new venture “Black ART Matters.” Rebecca’s artwork has been featured in dozens of media outlets including; Jezebel Magazine, Pattern Magazine, New York Examiner, Points North Magazine, The National Endowment of the Arts and most recently, exhibited her artwork at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.