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Bio

Yule Caise is an award winning Writer, Director and Producer of Film, Television and New Media. He is currently writer and Executive Producer of the upcoming limited series “James Baldwin in Paris” for UK-based Impact X. Prior to co-founding Behind the Billboards, he was a Writer-Producer on BET’s “Tales,” a scripted Hip Hop anthology series.

Previously, Caise was selected as the overall winner of the prestigious Fox Writers Lab, earning him a development deal at FX Networks, in conjunction with Fox Broadcasting Co and 20th Century Fox Television. Caise is also a Film Independent Fellow, having participated in the Screenwriters Lab with Snail Trails, his screenplay about growing up in the shadow of the Black Panther Party.

A digital pioneer, Yule Caise’s prior work and contributions to the NBC hit television show HEROES won an Emmy Award for Interactive Media Programming for The Heroes Digital Experience. He wrote and directed the show’s first live action web series, Heroes: Going Postal as well writing its first interactive graphic novel and several comic books. His love for animation began when he landed a job as a writer on Disney’s “Recess”. His award-winning short films Shoes and Boys’ Night Out have played festivals worldwide.

Other writing credits include Showtime’s Free Of Eden starring Sidney Poitier and the award-winning film Way Past Cool, Executive Produced by Milos Forman and Norman Lear.

Born and raised in Berkeley, California, Caise graduated from Harvard College and earned his MFA from UCLA’s School of Theater Film and Television.