Actor/Filmmaker Anthony Michael Hobbs Presents 'Youth Filmmaker' Award at Ocktober Film Festival

BALTIMORE - Oct. 6, 2016 - PRLog -- Multi-Award winning actor, model and filmmaker Anthony Michael Hobbs to appear during the October 7 - 9, 2016 Ocktober Film Festival in New York.  Also a youth motivational speaker, Hobbs will co-host the red carpet arrivals for the festival by interviewing the youth filmmakers as well as introducing them after their films are screened. He will also present the "Youth Filmmaker" Award to this year's winner. Currently promoting his second short film Naga Pixie Anthony Michael will be attending the 2016 Gary International Black Film Festival October 14 – 16^th where his film Naga Pixie will be screened along side Ava DuVernay's latest film.

Last year Hobbs won the Gary International Black Film Festival "Best Youth Short" in the Director's category for his first project One Nation. The Ocktober Film Festival in New York was founded by Evelyn Stuart to create a way for individuals to express themselves though film and new media.

Only eleven years old, at 10 the Baltimore filmmaker's One Nation was screened at 10 national film festivals and he won at four. His current film Naga Pixie will also be screened at the Sunrise Film Festival in Nova Scotia, Canada.

In his new project Naga Pixie Hobbs plays Jason who teams up with friends as he tries to figure out why Naga Pixie (played by Trinity Breanne Perio) is always nagging them about things they think are trivial such as not hurting animals and respecting nature. In One Nation Anthony Michael plays Steven who along with his five friends (Jeffrey, Spice, Hope, Rose, and Brianna) decided that they needed to give back to the members of the Armed Forces returning to the U.S. after fighting for our freedoms.

Global Stars Network honored Anthony with a total of six awards for his acting. His best known roles include a young Frederick Douglass in the 2013 Emmy Award nominated PBS Special Mini-Series "The American Experience: The Abolitionist" (http://video.pbs.org/video/2321796209) starring actor/director Richard Brooks ("Law & Order," The Crow), as well as his starring role in the DreamWorks documentary "How to Train Your Dragon: Dragons and Dinosaurs" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bekKOmfsWfc). Anthony Michael Hobbs' acting credits also include a United Way 's PSA (http://vimeo.com/54017197);  Norwegian Cruise-Line's commercial; several PBS Sprout Network mini-segments; the national classroom program called KinderRhyme - which appears in over 2600 school programs, and in a Comcast's Xfinity segment.



For more information on the Oct 7 -  9^th Ocktober Film Festival log onto www.OcktoberFilmFestival.com. For more information about Naga Pixie or One Nation visit Hobbs at his website www.anthony-michael.com or on IMDB. To contact his management you can call 410-908-4869.