Bijan C. Bayne has researched, written for, produced, directed & been interviewed in various films and television shows. His screenplay made the quarterfinals of BET's Color Creative "Script To Screen" competition in 2018. He appears in the 2020 movie "The First To Do It". In April 2014, he appeared on TV One's "Unsung Hollywood"'s episode "The Harlem Globetrotters". Bayne wrote animated ads for the National Science Teaching Association. Bayne was interviewed and featured in Brian Culkin's documentary "The Mission". Bayne wrote the tv pilots for rapper/producer Jazzy Jeff, and for rapper Akinyele. In addition, he served as a consultant to BassetTV, & MindSwarms, for branding Nike, & producing marketing videos about sportswear, elite athletes, and to specific demographics. He wrote the chapter on New Wave Cinema, in the ABL-CIO book "Race In American Film: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation". He also wrote the book's chapter on the movie" Odds Against Tomorrow". In 2015, Bayne co-wrote, directed, and helped cast the pilot for the reality series "Team of Dreams".
Soul Power Budget: $30M+ | Historical The night Dr. King is assassinated, a young city councilman negotiates against the clock with the mayor, police department, a TV station and James Brown, to broadcast Brown’s concert the next day as a means of keeping the peace
The Courts Budget: $10M - $30M | Family The Courts is a story of Martha’s Vineyard in the 1970’s- the guys, the girls, the shark, the sun and the fun
Oil Slick Budget: $30M+ | Historical On Friday November 22, 1963, the U.S. stock market dipped because of The Salad Oil Scandal- a masterful swindle in which the unassuming Tino De Angelis, was revealed having used millions of tons of vegetable oil as collateral to secure huge loans- but brokerage houses learned many of his oil tanks either contained water- or were empty. Panic ensued on the trading floor- until lunchtime- when JFK's assassination prevented a stock market crash. "Oil Slick" introduced the Michelangelo of con artists, the portly Anthony "Tino" De Angelis, in a Wall Street caper that was only forestalled by The Crime Of The Century. How and why did uneducated Tino (nearly) pull off the greatest white collar crime in history?
Always Jackie Budget: $5M - $10M | Family It is a portrayal of fathers and sons, surprise phone calls, a youth with his fingertips on history, and a hero who took time to reach him figuratively and literally where he lived. Always Jackie is where innocence meets harsh realities, and reminds us how humans often connected before our digital world existed.
Togethirty Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance A couple that once dated, approaches their shared thirtieth birthday, a few years after agreeing to marry each other if neither was hitched by then. Jenna and Cooper learn about each others' news lives, and current outlooks.
Six Degrees Of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Budget: $30M+ | Documentary What college sophomore was close to Wilt Chamberlain, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee? What former pro athlete has written a Sherlock Holmes mystery? What basketball hero played in only four losing games between ninth grade, and their first week as a pro? The answer for all of these = Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.