Charles Belk

Charles Belk, a graduate of Hillside High School in Durham, North Carolina, completed his BS degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California and received an MBA from Indiana University and a Executive Management Certificate from Harvard University School of Business. He is President and Chief Branding Officer of Charles Belk Entertainment, a Los Angeles based, brand awareness, digital marketing and consulting agency, and Producer at I Will Make You A Star Productions. His two decades of diverse Marketing Communications experience allows him to deploy unique, integrated, brand awareness campaigns that engage, entice and ensure measurable results. His company provides services to up-and-coming comedic actors, non-profit organizations, independent filmmakers and their indie films. Diverse in his endeavors, Charles Belk ventured further into the entertainment industry by directing and producing two spec television comedy pilots for consideration by Comedy Central. His first feature film as a producer ("The Greatest Song") was released on DVD in August, 2009. With his second feature film ("Douglass U"), slated for a theatrical release, he has strongly set his sights on positively impacting the film and television industry. A prolific speaker, Charles Belk has lead more than 40 seminars and workshops on such topics as "Writing an effective resume," "Winning Interviewing Skills," "Networking: How to work a room," and "The African American Male: Mentoring Today's Black Youth." In addition to serving as the keynote speaker for the USC Center for Engineering Diversity's Awards Banquet, Charles frequently serves as the host or as a panelist for events in and around Los Angeles - including, moderator for several movie and television preview screening q&a sessions for the NAACP Hollywood Bureau ("I Will Follow", "Just Right", "Pariah", "Our Family Wedding", ABC's "Scandal"), host of the USC Black Alumni Association (BAA) Homecoming Festivities, a panelist for the San Diego Film Festival's "How to Build Your Brand", the Hollywood Black Film Festival's "Positioning Your Film for Success," the Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles' "Low Cost Ways for Marketing Your Indie Film," the Pan African Film Festival's "Successful Festival Strategies: How to Get the Most Out of a Film Festival," and a panelist for the USC Annenberg School of Communications' Industry Night. Committed to community service, Charles has served on the Board of Directors for the inaugural, Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles, the University of Southern California BAA, the Silverlake Film Festival Board of Directors, and the Chaka Khan Foundation "I Believe" Gala Committee. While in Atlanta, he served on the boards of the Hughes Spaulding Childrens Hospital, House of Love for the Homeless, Georgia CASA, Jomandi Theater, United Way of Greater Atlanta Volunteer Initiate Program, Cobb County Transit Advisory. Prior to that, the Durham City / County Zoning Commission, and the Durham Country Transportation Commission. An Adjunct Professor of Marketing & Advertising at Pierce College, he is authoring his first book, "The Benefits of Branding You!"