Professor Jamal Joseph Interviewed for Documentary 'Can't Get You Out of My Head'

Professor and Head of the Screenwriting Concentration Jamal Joseph is featured as an interviewee in the BBC documentary series Can't Get You Out of My Head in the episode titled “Shooting and F**king are the Same Thing.” The 74-minute long episode follows the story of what tore the revolutions in the 1960s apart. Jiang Qing in China, Michael X in London, Afeni Shakur in New York believed that millions of people’s minds were haunted by the corruption and the violence of the past. They wanted to show people how to escape those ghosts. 

Can't Get You Out of My Head explores love, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence and You. An emotional history of the modern world by Adam Curtis.

Joseph was also recently featured on the list Historic Black Activism: 8 Trailblazing Columbians to Know by Columbia News. 

Jamal Joseph has written and directed for Black Starz, HBO, Fox TV, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros., and A&E. His produced screenplays include Ali: An American Hero (Fox), New York Undercover (Fox), Knights of the South Bronx (A&E), and The Many Trials of Tammy B. (Nickelodeon). He wrote and directed Drive By: A Love Story, Da Zone, and the docudrama Hughes Dreams Harlem for Starz. Joseph is currently co-executive producing and writing a dramatic musical for BET. He is adapting his memoir Panther Baby (Algonquin Books) into a feature screenplay which he will direct.

Joseph is the author of Tupac, Legacy (Simon & Schuster). He has also written the script for a Broadway musical based on the life of Tupac Shakur. He is the founder and artistic director of IMPACT, a Harlem-based youth theatre company, and executive director of New Heritage Films, a not-for-profit organization that provides training and opportunities for minority filmmakers.