INDUSTRY 101 EVENT SERIES
Visual Storytelling & Personal Branding with Canva
Wednesday, November 20 | 5-6:15 PM PT | Online
In this session, hear writer, producer, and New Voices Program Advisor Emmylou Diaz (Station 19, Jane the Virgin) and writer and New Voices Fellowship Alum Eugene Ramos (The Dragon Prince) on strategies, tools, and creative techniques for visual storytelling and pitching, and building a strong personal brand.
Learn how to use Canva to create compelling visual assets for your next film or TV project, from pitch decks to mood boards, and develop a distinctive brand that sets you apart.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Emmylou Diaz
Writer, Producer, Humanitas New Voices Program Advisor
Emmylou Diaz is a first-generation Colombian-American writer who got her start on the critical smash CW dramedy Jane the Virgin. She joined the fledgling staff as writers’ assistant and was quickly hand-picked by the showrunner to co-write and produce two freelance episodes during the show’s award-winning first season. A promotion to staff writer for season two of Jane the Virgin soon followed, and since then Emmy has launched a career working for some of the most acclaimed, prolific creators and showrunners in television. She works regularly as a Co-Executive Producer in television where her most recent credits include an untitled thriller for Amazon and The Watchful Eye for Freeform/Hulu. Other staffing credits include the hit Bravo dramedy Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, Charmed (CW), and the Shonda Rhimes drama Station 19, part of the beloved Grey’s Anatomy universe.
Emmy is an actress-turned-writer who received her MFA in Acting from the American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard University. She also studied at Oxford University (Exeter College), and Williams College, where she graduated with honors. She is a recipient of the NHMC Television Writers Fellowship, a diversity program sponsored by NBC and ABC.
She was born in New York City.
Eugene Ramos
Writer, 2020 Humanitas New Voices Fellow
Eugene Ramos was born and raised in the Chicago area by immigrants from the Philippines. After devouring countless Shakespeare plays, he earned a degree in 16th-century British Literature from Northwestern. He later graduated with an MFA in Film from Columbia University. Since film school, he’s participated in the Humanitas New Voices Fellowship, the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop, and the CAPE New Writers Fellowship. Eugene was awarded the Sloan Filmmaker Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival for Newton’s Laws of Emotion, his period-romance screenplay about Sir Isaac Newton. He was also nominated for a Humanitas Prize for co-writing the sci-fi short film, They Charge for the Sun, with director Terence Nance. Most recently he wrote for the Netflix animated series, The Dragon Prince: The Mystery of Aaravos, which concludes with its final season in December. Because of his love for the Bard and science fiction, Eugene was given the nickname The Sci-Fi Shakespeare Guy.
