Tressa Azarel Smallwood

Tressa "Azarel" Smallwood is an award-winning Book Publisher and Movie Producer. In 2003 after writing her first novel, Tressa resigned from her teaching tenure in the Maryland school system to fulfill her dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Since then, she's published many other books resulting in over 162 published titles some of which are now being adapted to film and TV series. As a content catalog owner, Tressa's entrepreneurial work as both an author, book consultant and movie producer have been featured in Black Enterprise, EURWeb, The Source, Shadow & Act, Rolling Out, and many more.Expanding into the film industry with MegaMind Media, her award-winning film company, Tressa has cast and worked alongside many accomplished actors such as Rob Riley, Denise Boutte, Clifton Powell and Lamman Rucker. In addition, she recently produced All In, the 2019 ABFF & BET award winning film, starring Lil Mama, Elise Neal, Lyric Hurd; and The Available Wife starring KJ Smith, Terayle Hill, and Roger Guenveur Smith, both of which were filmed in the District of Columbia. Tressa is in development for three of her scripted TV Series, Caught Up, Positions and Dirty Divorce (based off the best selling book series). Show less «