BMORE HACKS- The Movie & The Network

Maxie D. Collier has been an independent media producer for more than twenty years. He self-published his first book, the LA Survival Handbook, in 1987. He began his professional TV and film career in January 1990, as an employee of Black Entertainment TV (BET).He co-produced his first feature film, Detention, in 1997 and later the same year, wrote and directed the feature film B.MORE HACKS. In 1998, he self-published The Digital Video Filmmaker's Handbook, one of the first books published on desktop digital filmmaking. He later licensed the text to Internet TV start-up, IFILM.com.
The book was re-released in 2001, as the IFILM Digital Video Filmmaker's Handbook. The manuscript became a bestseller and has been used as a teaching text at more than two dozen colleges and universities.Collier is the producer and director of the hip-hop documentary film Paper Chasers, a co-production with the Independent Film Channel (IFC). The Paper Chasers documentary had its world debuted in New York at Robert De Niro’s prestigious Tribeca Film Festival, in May 2003.
The film was released on DVD in the US by Koch Entertainment, in July 2005 and began airing in the IFC in July 2006. The film was distributed internationally by the Weinstein Company.Maxie also co-directed and co-produced, Exit Strategies, a documentary short film exploring gang intervention programs. He has produced and directed numerous programs for broadcast and Internet TV outlets, including the pilot episode of the reality TV program, Houston Ink.