Dr. Terri Howard-Hughes (https://www.mediaforceproductions.com/) was born in Dallas, Texas. Her father was a war correspondent and information officer for General Clay post WWII. He covered the Nuremberg trials for Esquire magazine and wrote 35 novels and screenplays. Howard-Hughes followed her father’s footsteps, getting her bachelors (journalism) and masters (radio/TV) degrees from Southern Methodist University, graduating at the top of her class. She went on to receive her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Dallas in Art, Technology and Emerging Communications.
Howard-Hughes worked as a newspaper reporter and assistant producer on the TV show Today’s Family, which
covered all aspects of raising children. She wrote, directed, produced and edited an award-winning informational video
for ITIP – Infant and Toddler Intervention Program. ITIP is an organization that design special programs to address the
educational and developmental needs of very young children with disabilities. She also produced videos for the Rise School
which exists to give the highest quality of early education services to children ages six months to six years with and
without disabilities in an inclusive environment.
Howard-Hughes has had her production company, Mediaforce Productions for 21 years, producing hundreds of corporate videos as well as short films and documentaries. She is using her storytelling expertise from video scripts in writing these books for children. Howard-Hughes has received the following awards for writing and video production:
Six - Telly Awards
Four - Videographer Award of Excellences
Three - Axiem Awards
Three - DV Awards
Two - Hermes Creative Awards
Two - Summit Awards
Two - MarCom Awards
Two - Worldfest Platinum Awards
Two - Aurora Awards
Two - Communicator Awards
One - Worldfest Houston Silver Remi Award
One - Worldfest Houston Gold Remi Award
One - ZOOM Award
One - Fort Worth Film Festival Award
One - Worldfest Houston Bronze Remi Award
Clint Hughes (https://clinthughes.com/) is an internationally renowned Marketing expert who has been a featured speaker at international Marketing conventions for over 23 years. From taking DirecTV from 400k subscribers to over 10M subscribers in 5 years to taking APMEX (the world’s largest eCommerce site for precious metals) from $700M to $1.4B in one year. These successes have led top consulting groups (like McKinsey & Co.) to hire Clint. Well known in the halls of Congress, Clint is often called upon to get buy-in for a wide range of projects. In 2017 Clint received bipartisan recommendations from 17 members of Congress to be appointed U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and development. The O.E.C.D. is an organization, with 37-member countries, formed to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.
Two - MarCom Awards
Two - Worldfest Platinum Awards
Two - Telly Awards
Two – Primestar Marketing Awards
One - Axiem Awards
One - Worldfest Houston Bronze Remi Award
One - Worldfest Houston Silver Remi Award
One - Worldfest Houston Gold Remi Award
One - ZOOM Award
One - Fort Worth Film Festival Award
One – Gold Hermes Award
One - Aurora Award
One - Davey Award
One – Cable Access of Dallas Award
One - Videographer Award
One – Paul “Bear” Bryant Award from the American Heart Association
