Dubbed “The Black Sundance,” the Hollywood Black Film Festival (HBFF) is an annual 4-day celebration of Black Cinema drawing together established filmmakers, popular film and TV stars, writers, directors, industry executives, emerging artists, and diverse audiences from Southern California and around the world. HBFF’s INFOTAINMENT CONFERENCE features a wealth of informational panels and workshops covering a wide variety of topics which include: film production, distribution and marketing, pitching, writing for television and film, in addition to specific programs designed to inform and educate actors.
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Whitfield attended the Performing Arts High School in New York City, New York. He was featured on the sitcom The Cosby Show as Robert Foreman (the love interest of Tempestt Bledsoe's character Vanessa Huxtable). Since then, he has appeared in many television series, including The Jamie Foxx Show, Martin, andGirlfriends. He had a starring role on the short-lived sitcom Between Brothers.
Whitfield portrayed Terrence Frye on the ABC Daytime drama All My Children from 1991-1994. The role earned him nominations for three Daytime Emmy Awards and two Soap Opera Digest Awards. He was most recently seen in Atlanta (created by Paul Reiser & directed by Harold Ramis) with Christine Woods, Freddie Prinze, Jr.and Leslie Bibb (comedy centers on a man and a woman who meet at a funeral and can't seem to stay away from each other), Ghost Whisperer and CSI: Miami. He recently played Coach MacIntyre on the ABC family drama Make It Or Break It.
