{"id":14214,"date":"2012-04-26T15:01:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T19:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14214"},"modified":"2012-04-26T15:01:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T19:01:24","slug":"will-packer-think-like-a-hollywood-mogul-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14214","title":{"rendered":"Will Packer: Think Like A (Hollywood Mogul) Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly twenty years and with 15 films to his credit, producer <strong>Will Packer<\/strong> has firmly established himself as one of Hollywood&#8217;s most successful businessmen. The co-founder of the Atlanta-based Rainforest Films and a partner in the recently launched BounceTV, <strong>Packer<\/strong> has become a member of cinema&#8217;s A-list by providing a showcase for various portraits of contemporary Africa American life.<\/p>\n<p>A native of St. Petersburg, FL, <strong>Packer<\/strong> decided to pursue a career in films following an internship with veteran filmmaker <strong>Warrington Hudlin<\/strong>. Following the success of his first two independent projects, <em>Chocolate City<\/em>, and <em>Trios<\/em>, he landed on Hollywood&#8217;s radar&#8230;and never left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly twenty years and with 15 films to his credit, producer Will Packer has firmly established himself as one of Hollywood&#8217;s most successful businessmen. The co-founder of the Atlanta-based Rainforest Films and a partner in the recently launched BounceTV, Packer has become a member of cinema&#8217;s A-list by providing a showcase for various portraits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}