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Tampa Duo’s Connection Moves Them Up In 2020
Robyn Jones and Lorenzo Carswell, who were childhood friends in the Tampa Bay area, have built a great partnership in the enter- tainment industry. Ms. Jones and Mr. Carswell have been successful in several film projects that have won film festival awards.
One day they hope to come together with Will Packer, Ava Duvernay, Oprah Winfrey, and/or Tyler Perry, to produce television series and movies.
Robyn Jones, who cur- rently lives in Richmond, Vir- ginia, is a Registered Nurse who specializes in kidney dis- ease, and an educator at Hunter Holmes McGuire Vet- erans Hospital; CEO of Kidney Keepers, CEO of Klosa Produc- tions; and a movie director and producer.
Ms. Jones also has an online life and kidney health coaching business. She is an executive producer of several movies, short films, and televi- sion series: The Turnaround Movie, Aloha, Henry, Hunting at Pottersfield, Poz Roz, The Season, and Courage to Stand.
She has recently directed her own short film about her life called Did Showing Up Save My Life?
Mr. Carswell has been a producer in The Turnaround, The Season, Waking Up White, The Life of a Trucker, Amen and it is So. Carswell is
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currently bringing a play to the Tampa Bay area called, “The Four Women,” written by play- wright Kerry Ann Frazier out of Texas, as well as a fea- ture film, Broken Scales, from writer/director Travis Hadley out of Orlando, Florida.
Tampa connections: Ms. Jones and Mr. Carswell are also involved in other upcom- ing film projects that will be announced in the future.
They were reunited Thurs- day, January 23, 2020, at the Dale Mabry Campus Student Services Auditorium of Hills- borough Community College to commemorate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as part of an event entitled, Dream, Believe, Do: Re- newing a Sense of Em- powerment.”
Carswell is the chair of the Martin Luther King Com- mittee at HCC, and he is a pro-
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fessor of Developmental Writ- ing as well as student life skills courses.
Jones joined a panel to discuss issues concerning the divide of the nation and to dis- cuss the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The panel included: Robyn Jones, MSN, RN, CDN; Christopher King of the Gentlemen’s Course; Richard Smiley, civil rights veteran who protested/marched with Dr. King; Mia Lewis, HCC Stu-
dent Government Association vice-president; and Rapheal Smith, student at HCC.
Additionally, while in town, Ms. Jones spoke to private school students at Legacy Elite Christian Preparatory School, which Carswell is a co- founder, on Friday. The MLK event had Organize Florida and the Human Rights Organ- ization as part of the program to assist in registration and awareness of human rights.
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