Biographie
Rafee Kamaal has forty years of experience specializing in video production, post-production, creative writing, directing, multicultural, multiethnic, multigenerational content marketing strategies, distribution, and brand media business management. Kamaal's many producing credits started in the early 1970s with cable tv (Teleprompter Corp.). They include as an associate producer on a dance series, Soul Alive (WPIX-TV); consulting producer on Today's Black Women (ABC O&O's); senior producer/writer/ director/marketing executive on In The Black: Keys to Success, a ten-year financial empowerment and healthcare series on superstation WWOR-TV; a co-producer on a series of music/variety specials from the Apollo Theatre (Westinghouse Broadcasting/Group W), producer credits on a series of international tourism profiles (Bahamas Television), a teen issue-oriented series (NBC O&O's), as well as assignments on a number of documentaries that include being a senior producer on a Queen Latifah doc, a field producer on a Marilyn Monroe doc and a supervising producer on a Reba McEntire doc, all for Lifetime Network, and as an associate producer on Kareem Abdul Jabbar's NAACP award-winning documentary, On the Shoulders of Giants. (Showtime/Netflix). Kamaal also produced with Kareem, international sports clinics.
Kamaal has executive produced several DVDs, entitled How To Find Employment; How To Start & Develop A Successful Business; How To Setup A Personal Financial Guide For Success, as well as a health care prevention DVD, entitled How To Stay Healthy, Live Longer, and Cut Your Medical Costs. It focuses on First Aid Tips, Aids Awareness, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Mental Health & Diabetes Advice, and much more. (Amazon)
Born and raised in New York City, Kamaal studied entrepreneurship at The Lawrence N. Field Center of Entrepreneurship at Baruch College, as well as studied the business of producing at Third World Cinema, which was founded by Ossie Davis, Hannah Weinstein, Piri Thomas, and John Oliver Killens.
Rafee Kamaal is board president at the Helping Others Alliance, Inc. a nonprofit formed to help advocate for the eradication of age discrimination in the media, workplace, and the marketplace, through social equity. Kamaal is also co-chair of the Black Documentary Collective and on the board of the International Communications Association/The Dwyer Cultural Center.
Rafee Kamaal's mission and vision are to engage, inspire, educate, empower, entertain and enrich the lives of people globally.
