Michael Elliot

Michael Elliot is an acclaimed African-American screenwriter known for films like 'Brown Sugar,' which grossed nearly four times its production budget. A high school dropout and homeless 27 years ago, he rose to prominence starting with publishing Krush Magazine in 1988, the first devoted to hip-hop music, and has generated over $115 million in box office revenue. He won the 2011 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture and is a serial entrepreneur with ventures like the men's grooming company Hammer & Nails.[2][3]