Charles D. King is a DataEthics4All Top 100 DIET Champion 2021, and the Founder and CEO of MACRO. MACRO is a multi-platform media company representing the voice and perspectives of people of color. Charles casts the overall vision, mission and strategic goals for the company’s multiple business verticals, which include a film and television studio, talent and influencer management divisions, a branding and creative agency and an affiliated venture firm. Launched in 2015, MACRO has produced and/or financed ten feature films to date, including Just Mercy, starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson; Sorry to Bother You, starring LaKeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson; Mudbound and Fences, the film adaptation of the Tony-Award winning play by August Wilson which starred Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. MACRO’s projects have earned nine Academy Award nominations and one win for Davis in Fences, and numerous other nominations. Charles has secured a co-financing, first look deal with Warner Bros. pictures in 2019, and is currently in post-production on the upcoming 2021 film JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH, starring Daniel Kaluyya and LaKeith Stanfield. Through its Television Studio, MACRO produced the runaway hit “Raising Dion,” which debuted on Netflix in 2019 and went on to become the streamer’s #1 Kids and Family show worldwide; as well as 2020’s Latinx dramedy “Gentefied.” DataEthics4All is proud to call Charles D. King a DIET Champion 2021 for his work in Data and Diversity, Inclusion, Ethics and Equity in Technology and AI to help the Society.
