EXCLUSIVE: Penguin Random Home Imprint Storehouse Voices has snapped up director/author/producer David E. Talbert’s memoir for six figures, we hear.
Entitled, All the pieces I Know About Being A Man (I Discovered From A Lady), the memoir from the Nearly Christmas and Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey filmmaker was impressed by Talbert’s present days as a father imparting recommendation to his son. Talbert was raised by a single mom with little to no interplay together with his father.
Forty years later, in having father and son conversations, Talbert realized the teachings he’s discovered within the journey to turn into a person, got here from a lady.
Together with the publishing of the ebook, Talbert is at present creating a half-hour comedy for
tv based mostly on the identical title. The story of a first-time dad tasked with the unattainable:
changing into the daddy he by no means had. And within the course of, not driving himself and everybody round
him loopy.
Talbert is repped by UTA.
In November 2023, Talbert is launched HBCU Subsequent, a fellowship program that brings aspiring filmmakers from Traditionally Black Schools and Universities to the USC Faculty of Cinematic Arts (SCA) Summer season Program. He conceived and funded HBCU Subsequent alongside his spouse and producing companion Lyn Sisson-Talbert as a chance to counterpoint the tutorial expertise for college kids of Coloration. Throughout the program, members acquire profession insights and inventive abilities to develop genuine portrayals of Black experiences and tradition inside screenwriting, filmmaking, and the evolving media panorama.
