Kirby MC
LightNews LightNews
banner
kirbysaid.bsky.social
Kirby MC
@kirbysaid.bsky.social
690 followers 210 following 57 posts
So here’s the thing my little chili babies
✨ TV Writer. Avail for staffing • Disney TV Writing Program ‘23 • WA (Nancy Drew S4)
Posts Replies Media Videos
kirbysaid.bsky.social
been way too long since I’ve been in a writers’ room, and I’m currently on the most unexpected side quest — I’m a cake decorator and getting pretty good at it
A heart made out of diced strawberries on a green cutting board A collage of different eight inch cakes that Kirby has decorated. The top left is a mocha toffee cake with toffee along the bottom. The top middle is a chocolate and vanilla cake with dark chocolate curls on the outside. The top right is an ube cake with a piping flower on top. The bottom left is a ube cake with a swirl and edible gold leaves. The middle right is a pistachio cake with a pistachio ring on top. The bottom right is a mango cake with white chocolate curls and coins.
July 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
kirbysaid.bsky.social
🤸🏽 my short film is officially going to the Pan African Film & Arts Festival in LA!!!! So excited to see her on the big screen 🥹
Still from “Ways to Fly” short film of a young Black girl with two strand twists and colorful butterfly barrettes at the end. She stares forward. On the left is the laurel for the official Pan African Film Festival 2025
January 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
kirbysaid.bsky.social
Still wild to me that #SurviveTil25 is true for so much of #WriterSky and #ScreenwriterSky. I’m sure y’all have been writing btwn survival jobs. Let me know if you want line notes, proofing, or more on any of your samples and additional materials!
Get ready to thrive in ‘25! Make sure that your script samples and additional materials are as ready as you are. I’ve honed my skills in writing fellowships like the Disney TV Program, Black Boy Writes and Black Girl Writes, Disruptors, and Warner Media Access Early Career Bootcamp. Let’s do more than survive ‘til 25. Rate card for Kirby’s editing and notes services. TV pilots 30 pages or less are $75 for proofing and $150 for line notes. Pilots that are 40-60 pages are $120 proofing and $225 for line notes. Please reach out for rate for shorts, outlines, treatments, pitch docs, resumes, and fellowship essays.
November 25, 2024 at 11:48 PM
kirbysaid.bsky.social
parents the second your grades start slipping
Lyrics to Kendrick Lamar’s song “tv off.” They read, huh turn this TV off, turn this TV off repeated four times
November 23, 2024 at 5:05 PM
kirbysaid.bsky.social
Deliver Us From Eva (2003)
Still from the movie “Deliver Us From Eva,” four fashionable Black women walk down the street. They’re the Dandridge Sisters Still from the movie “Deliver Us From Eva,” mid-date, LL Cool J wraps his arms around Gabrielle Union
November 20, 2024 at 5:35 AM
kirbysaid.bsky.social
My Girl (1991)
Two kids stop on their bikes Two kids share a quick peck of a kiss in front of water
November 20, 2024 at 5:28 AM
kirbysaid.bsky.social
Kajillionaire (2020)
Still from the movie “Kajillionaire.” A wide shot of a hot tub store with one hot tub in focus. The wall behind the hot tub has a panel red flowers, but there are plain white walls on either side of the beautiful panel. A feminine Latina woman (Gina Rodriguez) sits in the hot tub. She looks at a white woman (Evan Rachel Wood) who is barely visible due to her long hair shielding her face. An office building that has pink foam leaking from the ceiling down a wall. Three white people in ill fitting clothing use small trash bins to collect foam.
November 20, 2024 at 5:19 AM
kirbysaid.bsky.social
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Still from the movie “A.I. Artificial Intelligence.” Backlit by the sun, Monica (white woman with brown hair) touches the back of David’s head. David is a robot boy with brown hair.
November 18, 2024 at 2:58 AM
kirbysaid.bsky.social
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Promotional cover art for the 1995 film, “While You Were Sleeping.” Two people are backlit dreamily beside train tracks. A white man holds up a smiling white woman in a romantic pose. Still from “While You Were Sleeping,” Lucy (Sandra Bullock) and Jack (Bill Pullman) are caught standing beneath the mistletoe
November 18, 2024 at 1:17 AM
kirbysaid.bsky.social
Luca (2021)
Luca (sea monster boy) happily grins out the door of a moving train Luca (sea monster boy) leans fully out the door of the train, free
November 18, 2024 at 1:10 AM
kirbysaid.bsky.social
sure, why not? #FilmSky et al
November 17, 2024 at 11:37 PM
kirbysaid.bsky.social
some days, you can barely go to the kitchen. other days, you start walking and end up going five miles. that’s life, babe
Still from the TV show, “Parks and Recreation.” Ben Wyatt (white guy, 30s, played by actor Adam Scott) is disheveled with scruff on his normally clean shaven face. He holds up a claymation figure he made while unemployed. He smiles as he says, “I mean, look at what I’ve accomplished.” Further context — Ben is depressed and doesn’t know it yet.
November 17, 2024 at 12:52 AM
kirbysaid.bsky.social
Earlier this year, I directed my first short film, #WaysToFlyShort. Cannot express how gratifying and amazing it felt to lead this set. Here’s to telling #OurStories our way and making our dreams happen, especially as the 🌎 and ways to succeed change around us. #ADHD #BlackAndADHD #BlackSky
Still from “Ways to Fly” short film, written and directed by Kirby Marshall-Collins. A well lit ballet class with four young ballerinas. Three of them frame the lead, Nia (Black, 12, played by Kyrie McAlpin). The others each have tight buns in their hair and all black leotards/dance clothes. Nia has two strand twists with flower and butterfly barrettes and is wearing a bright blue wrap skirt over her leotard. They are all poised to start. Still from “Ways to Fly” short film, written and directed by Kirby Marshall-Collins. A well lit ballet class. As several young ballerinas pass by in a blur, the only two people in focus are Nia (Black, 12, played by Kyrie McAlpin) and Missy (Black, 20s, assistant dance teacher). On left, Missy wears a colorful sports bra and bright floral yoga pants. She watches Nia, who is the only other colorful dancer. While the other dancers blur to their places, Nia’s too busy adjusting her two strand twists in her hair.
November 15, 2024 at 6:46 PM
kirbysaid.bsky.social
I just wrote a happy reflective thread that was going to include a bunch of short film recs, but then I saw that bigstreamer CANCELED ALOTO and now I don’t really know what to do but sit here in stunned silence, despite knowing it was a possibility. Like we can’t even have that?
August 18, 2023 at 9:47 PM