IP Development · Story Architecture · Creative Career Pipeline
The GapThe audience is ready.
The development pipeline hasn't been built for us.
Black women are among the most powerful storytellers and audiences in entertainment. The demand is proven. What's missing isn't talent — it's infrastructure. The development systems that take a great story and make it pitchable. The industry access that turns a promising career into a working one. The ecosystem that connects IP, education, and screen adaptation into something that actually compounds over time.
Most organizations operate in one vertical. We're building the bridge across all of them.
“The intersection of Black stories, education pipelines, IP development, and film & TV adaptation is massively underdeveloped. Very few organizations are building that bridge. We are.”
Three Ways In.
One Ecosystem.
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For Creators & Authors IP Development & Book-to-Screen
You have a book, a memoir, a story archive, or a script. We help you develop it into something the industry can say yes to — adaptation strategy, story world analysis, character arcs, pitch bible framework, and a full development roadmap for film or television. We'll be honest about what the path looks like. No promises we can't keep
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For Youtube Creators Story Development
Turn your idea, archive, or concept into a structured, narrative-driven show. Show concept development, episode structure, narrative arc design, season outline, and script guidance. Youtube projects also become IP that can evolve into screen adaptations.
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For Schools & Workforce Programs Creative Labs
Institutional Career Pipeline For schools, workforce offices, and cultural organizations ready to build a real film and TV career pathway. Workshops, semester partnerships, multi-day intensives, and curriculum modules — outcomes-driven, not just enrollment-driven. This is the entry door to an industry pipeline that keeps producing. We track outcomes. Not just participation.
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For Working Professionals Creative Labs Pro Access
Vault Sessions 90-minute sessions with working industry professionals — production designers, writers, directors — showing their exact workflow. The craft side and the business side, taught by people still doing the work. Includes downloadable 10-week lesson guides timestamped in the video. Live sessions coming May 2026
The VisionWe're not building a company. We're building an ecosystem.
Ecosystems take longer to start. But once they work, they compound. The long-term vision for IM Media Productions is a cultural IP incubator — a creative development hub where Black women creators bring projects to develop for the film and TV market, and where the next generation of crew and creative professionals is already in the pipeline behind them.
Creative Labs Film & TV career pathways and institutional partnerships. Education is the entry door — and once inside, a full creator pipeline follows.
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IP Development Book-to-screen adaptation, podcast development, and story architecture. The upstream work that shapes projects before production ever begins.
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Development Slate Original and adapted projects in active development. When studios see a slate, not just services, every conversation changes.
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Industry Network Producers, directors, script consultants, production designers, agents. When a creator enters IM Media, they feel like they're entering a development ecosystem — not just hiring a consultant.
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Meet Monique Shaw
Film & TV IP Development Strategist | Founder, I.M. Media Productions
Monique Shaw didn't get handed a seat at the table. She built her own — on real film sets, in real AD departments, on productions like The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, The Hate U Give, and Coming 2 America.
She left a six-figure corporate career to do it. And what she learned inside those sets changed everything:
Great ideas don't get made. Developed ideas do.
As an AD Department PA, Monique spent years keeping directors, talent, and 15+ departments aligned so production days stayed on schedule. She saw exactly where the pipeline between a great story and a green-lit project breaks down — and built IM Media Productions to fix it.
IM Media is a creative development studio for authors, creators, and institutions ready to move from concept to screen-ready IP. Monique specializes in book-to-screen adaptation, narrative podcast development, and film & TV career pathway curriculum — bringing real studio systems to every project she touches.
She offers what she wished she'd had at the start:
A clear path. A real system. Execution that works.
Monique's Film Credits
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![insecure-hbo]()
Insecure
1st Team Production Assistant
HBO | 2016
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![coming-2-america-amazon-mgm]()
Coming 2 America
1st Team Production Assistant
Amazon MGM Studios | 2022
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![the-irishman-netflix]()
The Irishman
1st Team Production Assistant
Netflix | 2019
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![bigger-bet-original]()
Bigger
Basecamp Production Assistant
BET+ | 2019
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![raising-dion-netflix]()
Raising Dion
1st Team Production Assistant
Netflix | 2019
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![the-hate-you-give-20th-century]()
The Hate You Give
Basecamp Production Assistant
20th Century Studios | 2018
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![stranger-things-netflix]()
Stranger Things
Office Production Assistant
Netflix | 2016
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![high-flying-bird-netflix]()
High Flying Bird
1st Team Production Assistant
Netflix | 2019
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![the-underground-railroad-amazon-prime]()
The Underground Railroad
1st Team Production Assistant
Amazon Prime Video | 2021
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![the-hunger-games-mockingjay-pt2-lionsgate]()
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Pt 2
Office Production Assistant
Lionsgate | 2015
What We'll Tell You StraightWe're not a shortcut. We're a system.
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Every project and every career path is different. We bring industry knowledge, honest guidance, and the right connections — not a guaranteed greenlight.
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We work upstream. The payoff is real but it isn't instant. We'll tell you what the realistic path looks like before you commit.
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That's the job. The best thing we can do for your project is be honest about what the industry will and won't respond to right now.
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Shows featuring underrepresented stories generate 5× more social engagement. The audience is there. Getting more Black women's stories to screen is an opportunity the industry keeps leaving on the table. We're here to close that gap — from both sides.
Ready to Find Your Entry Point?
Whether you're a writer with a book that should be a film, a creator with a podcast concept that deserves a narrative structure, a professional building toward their next credit, or a studio ready to invest in a real pipeline — start with a discovery call. We'll tell you exactly where we can help and where we can't. No fluff.
Live sessions coming May 2026 · Pro Access members get first access · $39/month