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Founder and President, Black Bicycle Entertainment

Founder and President, Erika Film Foundation

Founder, Olde & New

Erika Olde is an award-winning producer and founder of Black Bicycle Entertainment, the Los Angeles based production company that produces and finances commercial and prestige feature films. Her recent work includes Home Again, starring Reese Witherspoon, Susanna White’s Woman Walks Ahead, starring Jessica Chastain, and Whitney Cumming’s The Female Brain. She founded  The Erika Film Foundation after the success of her IRIS IN program, originally created for students of Ghetto Film School. The Erika Film Foundation helps aspiring young filmmakers from underrepresented communities by providing them with the education, tools and networks needed to pursue successful careers in the film industry.

In 2021, Erika launched Olde & New, a destination for modern takes on traditional comfort food recipes. She founded the company in 2020 after her personal struggle to find healthy versions of her favorite homemade meals. The digital brand offers traditional and modified versions of comfort food recipes to accommodate any kind of lifestyle including vegetarian, diabetic-friendly, gluten-free or ketogenic.

Erika is a Ghetto Film School board member, a TiFF Share Her Journey Ambassador, and has been featured in media worldwide including Variety’s 2017 Women’s Impact Report. In 2020, Olde was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30: Hollywood and Entertainment list.