Lights, Camera, Activism! About Hollywood Gives Back Hollywood Gives Back believes in the unifying power of collaboration.
Hollywood Gives Back is currently in the development stage, and we look forward to partnering with like-minded individuals and organizations to advance our mission.
OUR MISSION
Fostering strategic partnerships, Hollywood Gives Back is a nonprofit non-governmental organization supporting like-minded NGOs providing low- and no-cost resources to confront food insecurity and hunger within our entertainment community and country.
OUR FOUNDER
Roger C. Memos has worked in the television industry as a producer and archival researcher for over 35 years. He started his career at Entertainment Tonight and went on to produce on talk shows and variety specials. In 2005, he won a Daytime Emmy for producing on the reality series “Starting Over”. He was associate producer on the feature documentary “AKA Tommy Chong” which wowed audiences at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2010, Roger had the pleasure of doing archival research for the feature documentary Jean- Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child and most recently served as associate producer on the feature documentary “Rock Camp”.
Roger directed and co-produced his first feature documentary “Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity”. The documentary won “Best Documentary Feature” at the Burbank International Film Festival, The Studio City International Film Festival and the Sherman Oaks Film Festival. The documentary recently had its’ broadcast premiere on Turner Classic Movies. His most recent job was working as a film researcher and Acquisition Manager on the 95th Annual Academy Awards.