About

Imani Media Group is a Los Angeles-based film, television, music, and distribution company founded by entertainment executive and producer Manny Halley, with additional operations tied to Atlanta. Over the years, the company has built a recognizable lane in independent Black entertainment by developing, producing, financing, and distributing culturally driven commercial content across film, television, and digital platforms. Through its divisions — Imani Records, Imani Motion Pictures, and Faith Media Distribution — the company has worked across music management, scripted and unscripted television, theatrical releases, and streaming distribution, while also maintaining partnerships and release relationships with outlets such as BET, BET+, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, and Sony Home Entertainment. Imani Media Group first gained wider visibility in television through BET reality titles including Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is and Frankie & Neffe, before shifting aggressively into feature filmmaking with the 2017 adaptation of True to the Game, based on the bestselling novel by Teri Woods. That title became the cornerstone of the company’s screen brand and led to the commercially successful sequels True to the Game 2 and True to the Game 3, with the latter debuting as the #1 independently released film during its opening frame and helping cement Imani’s reputation as a viable independent force in urban theatrical and digital distribution.

Beyond the True to the Game franchise, Imani Media Group has continued to expand its catalog with a steady stream of genre and audience-targeted releases including Dutch, A Holiday Chance, Real Talk, Wayward, and Imani, while also moving deeper into serialized storytelling with BET/BET+ titles such as Legacy and Angel. Its affiliated distribution arm, Faith Media Distribution, has been a major part of the company’s identity, helping position Imani as not just a production banner but also a pipeline for independently controlled Black content. The company’s slate has frequently centered stories rooted in romance, street drama, suspense, faith-adjacent themes, and culturally specific Black experiences, all while targeting audiences often underserved by traditional studio systems. While Imani Media Group is not primarily known as an awards-driven prestige studio, its success has been marked more by box office resilience, franchise growth, cable and streaming performance, and sustained visibility in the independent film marketplace than by major academy or guild wins.

As of now, Imani Media Group’s most recent trajectory reflects a continued push into franchise expansion and television production. The company has been tied to new development around a True to the Game television adaptation, signaling its intent to further extend one of its most bankable properties into episodic form, while also completing production on newer projects such as Lot Patrol, a comedy series created by Manny Halley. That recent momentum underscores the company’s broader evolution from a music-connected entertainment brand into a vertically integrated Black-owned media operation with interests spanning talent, production, licensing, and distribution. With a business model rooted in ownership, targeted audience engagement, and independently controlled storytelling, Imani Media Group remains one of the more visible contemporary Black independent production entities working across both film and television.