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January 18, 2020 Breakfast Meeting

Joseph Frankel is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Imaginary Courtyard Inc, a content marketing agency that places storytelling front and center to promote brands and individuals. An alumnus of the MFA Writing for Screen and Television program at the University of Southern California, Joe has worked as a writer, director and producer in Los Angeles, New York, and Toronto.
His screenwriting credits include a four-hour television miniseries based on The Phantom comics, and Steve Guttenberg: Frenchman an animated streaming series that is currently under development. Joe has reviewed and developed thousands of screenplays for Universal Studios, The Mark Gordon Company, Stefanie Epstein Productions, and The Characters Agency. He brings the same passion for storytelling and audience building to all of his creative pursuits – whether writing screenplays or creating short-form advertising for clients. Joe has produced content for global brands including: Google, Penguin-Random House Books, MLB, Toys R Us, Southwest Airlines and Nintendo. As Executive Producer of content at Cineplex, Joe managed a team that wrote, directed, produced and programmed hours of monthly celebrity interviews, behind-the scenes videos, and interactive video games that played on movie screens and digital channels across Canada. He is also the founder of the Zoom Student Film Festival and sits on the annual judges panel reviewing submissions from students around the world.

Braz Menezes Launches Matata Trilogy in Goa

An exciting announcement. In December, 2019 the Matata Trilogy was launched under an Indian Imprint dedicated to the people of Goa and India, as the first two books cover the period when the now State of Goa was ruled by Portugal, and India was part of the British Raj.It became independent in 1947. In 1961, India drove the Portuguese out. It is almost 100 years since my father landed in Kenya. He never returned to Goa. His older brother emigrated to Mozambique earlier and was laid to rest there. A third brother, destined for the priesthood, left Goa for Mozambique, from where he joined an overland caravan heading to Luanda, Angola. From there he was determined to emigrate to Brazil. He died of malaria 6 days outside Luanda. All three brothers were laid to rest in Africa.
I set out to write their story. I attended my first creative writing class at the age of 69 in Toronto. My father’s story is not unique. There are many families in Goa, who have lost track of family members who had immigrated to Africa. Hence my decision to make these books more accessible. In addition a 100% of the author’s royalties are to be donated to the NGO- Goa Heritage Action Group (GHAG) – dedicated to maintain the cultural heritage (broadly defined) of Goa.
The books were launched at the 10th Anniversary of the very successful Goa Arts and Literature Festival (GALF), co-founded by Vivek Menezes, writer/photographer. The books release was by ex-Kenya Eddie Fernandes, founder and CEO of the Goan Voice UK, an online journal based in London for over 2 decades that kept the global diaspora informed of news. Two discussants, who miraculously read all three books in one go, were the stars of the show: Ibha Gupta, Doctoral Research Scholar, Goa University; and Heta Pandit, Author and scholar, writes about Goan houses, construction, culture. She is the current chairperson of GHAG.

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The Winners of the 2019 Poetry Contest were announced at the May 18 Breakfast Meeting. Cynthia Robins (first), Husain Mehdi (second), Maria Marchelletta (third).

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