Will Packer
Film Producer
Notable for his production work on the films Obsessed, Think Like a Man, About Last Night, and Ride Along, this filmmaker produced numerous projects in collaboration with Rob Hardy.
After earning an electrical engineering degree from Florida A&M University, he founded an Atlanta based movie production company called Rainforest Films. His debut film, Chocolate City, was released in 1994.
His film Ride Along brought in close to 150,000,000 dollars at the box office.
He grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida, and later settled in Atlanta, Georgia. His marriage to Nina Packer began in 2001 and ended in divorce in 2009.
He and Martin Luther King III, along with several other collaborators, launched a television network called Bounce TV that was aimed at African American viewers.