Get To Know Charles David King, Producer Of ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’

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Charles David King is the founder and CEO of MACRO, a Hollywood development and production studio formed in 2015. He is a producer, visionary, trailblazer, angel investor, and the founder and CEO of MACRO. Dr. Winton King, a Bermudian and pediatrics resident at Harlem Hospitals at the time, and Frances King, a novelist and poet, gave birth to him in Harlem, New York in 1969.

In Decatur, Georgia, King graduated from Southwest DeKalb High School. He then modeled in Nashville and Atlanta before enrolling at Vanderbilt University to study Political Science and Government. In 1991, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vanderbilt. He received his Juris Doctorate from Howard University Law School five years later, in 1996.

King has a diverse background that has aided in the growth of his company, Macro. King worked as an in-house attorney at MTV Networks from June 1995 to December 1995, and subsequently at America Online from 1995 to 1997. (AOL) King was named Senior VP for Motion Pictures at the William Morris Agency (a leading talent agency) in 1997, at the age of 28, a position he maintained until 2009. In January 2017, he was named Co-Founder and General Partner of M Ventures, an early-stage venture firm that invests in technology firms that employ software and the internet to develop breakthrough consumer or enterprise products and solutions.

In 2018, King joined THINK450, a for-profit licensing and business development entity wholly owned by the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) and its members that protects NBPA members’ name, likeness, data, and intellectual property. King co-founded MaC Venture in January 2019, a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups that track shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.

King established MACRO in 2015. He stated that he wanted to focus on telling tales by and about people of color because there were few of these types of films coming out of Hollywood at the time. King’s vision and aims were clear in his debut film, Judas and The Black Messiah, released in 2021, which depicted the betrayal and assassination of then-21-year-old Fred Hampton, head of the Black Panther chapter in Chicago, Illinois. The film won the BET Award for Best Film of the Year (2021). Daniel Kaluuya won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (2021), the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance (2021), and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture  for his performance in Judas and the Black Messiah (2021).

Recognized as a trailblazer, innovator, dealmaker, angel investor and philanthropist, King is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. King is also Vice Chair of College Track, a national college completion program founded in 1997 that assists students from underserved communities to graduate from college and he serves on the board of directors of the National Basketball Players Association, the Sundance Institute, and Think 450.

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