KALEIDOSCOPE

ka· lei· do· scope

\ kə-ˈlī-də-ˌskōp \

KALEIDOSCOPE is the burgeoning film & TV development, production, and post-production division of JOCMedia + Entertainment, LLC.

We are globally-focused content creators driven by imagination, an appreciation of culture, and riveting storytelling.

KALEIDOSCOPE’s objective is procuring and developing existing IP and original ideas for theatrical, OTT, and linear platforms domestically and abroad.

Our key target audience is men and women over 25 who are politically and socially conscious, appreciate history, and possess an open-minded broad worldview.

Projects in Development

FEATURE LOGLINE: Chasing the American dream, an impoverished Panamanian migrates to Chicago amid segregation in the 1950s, facing off against the chokehold of Jim Crow to break the color barrier making history by becoming the first Black agent for New York Life Insurance to join the Million Dollar Round Table.

PREMISE: Based on the true story of Cirilo McSween, this biopic highlights Cirilo’s journey from immigrant college student to smashing the glass ceiling of corporate America amid the racially motivated social order of Jim Crow in the 1950s by becoming of the first Black insurance agents in America and the first for New York Life Insurance and joining the illustrious Million-Dollar Round Table.

PREMISE: Based on the true story of Cirilo McSween, this documentary delves into the history and making of a son of Panama who left all he know in pursuit of the American dream while enduring, surviving and thriving from the vestiges of Jim Crow, being a prominent figure in the American Civil Rights Movements, being one the first Black successful McDonald’s franchisee owners, to his workworking as “king maker” to prominent government figures from the 1980s until his death in 2008.

DOCUMENTARY LOGLINE: An impoverished student athlete migrates to the US from Panama at the height of Jim Crow in the 1950s and, for five subsequent decades, makes history as the first Black agent hired by New York Life Insurance, serving as an unheralded civil rights activist alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, a multiple McDonald's franchisee, and associate to then-Senator Barack Obama.

PREMISE: Based on the true story of Cirilo McSween, this documentary delves into the history and making of a son of Panama who left all he knew in pursuit of the American dream while enduring, surviving, and thriving from the vestiges of Jim Crow, being a prominent figure in the American Civil Rights Movements, being one the first Black successful McDonald's franchisee owners, to his work working as "kingmaker" to prominent government figures from the 1980s until he died in 2008.

LIMITED SERIES LOGLINE: On the fourth down of his football career, an aging linebacker eyes his next move going into business with an unscrupulous business advisor whom he must play offense against, resulting in one of the largest whistleblowing scandals in US history.

PREMISE: Pulled from the headlines from The Wall Street Journal to The Tennessean and based on the memoir “Unprecedented Challenges” published by retired CFL football player and NFL linebacker John Pointer of the Green Bay Packers, this limited series’ line of scrimmage chronicles his transition from the gridiron into a fledgling entrepreneur turned government whistleblower uncovering millions of dollars in fraud and garnering the attention and his testimony to the U.S. Congress.

FEATURE LOGLINE: A hard-nosed bigot Army lieutenant reports for duty and is surprised that he must train the 442nd infantry of Nisei men, second-generation Japanese American soldiers during World War II, while working through the war within himself.

PREMISE: “Go For Broke!” is based on the feature film of the same title distributed by MGM on May 24, 1951. The story highlights the contributions Asian Americans, particularly those of Japanese descent, made during wartime in America despite the mistrust and racist treatment they received.

SERIES LOGLINE: A grieving widower retires from the Negro American League, relocating to South Carolina with his sons to run the inherited familial beach resort in the crosshairs of local land developers in the 1940s.

PREMISE: Inspired by the 1991 feature film “Daughters of the Dust” by Julie Dash and incorporating elements of the true story of the Bruce Family’s Bruce’s Beach resort in California, whose land was seized, shuttered, and demolished in 1924 because the proprietors and patrons were Black.

BACK TO HOME