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Hollywood, Ca. – Feature film director Ivan Dixon will be the featured guest on a filmmakers forum this Monday May 22nd 2006 at 7pm on radio station WURD (900 am) with host David Barnes. You can listen to the show live from anywhere in the world via the Internet at: WWW.900amWURD.com. You will also be able to call in with your questions and comments on filmmaking, music scoring, film marketing and distribution. As an actor IVAN DIXON is probably best remembered for his role as Sergeant James Kinchloe on Hogan's Heroes. One of his first acting credits was for the celebrated television anthology The Dupont Show of the Month in the 1960 production of Arrowsmith. He went on to act in the film version of the theatrical drama A Raisin in the Sun with Ruby Dee and Sidney Poitier.He also portrayed Jim in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess. One of his most important film roles is in the acclaimed drama Nothing But a Man (1964) in which he played Duff, a Southern railroad worker who must decide if his life, his marriage and his relationship with his son will repeat the mistakes his own father committed. Dixon acted with Poitier again in the 1965 film A Patch of Blue about a blind white girl falling in love with a  black man (Poitier). In 1965, Dixon began his enlistment as Sergeant James Kinchloe on "Hogan's Heroes" He left the series in 1970, one year before the show ended. His post-"Hogan" films included: Suppose They  Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970), the Vietnam veteran melodrama Clay Pigeon (1971), and Car Wash (1976, as the boss, Lonnie).  Ivan began directing films in the early 1970s, such as the 1972 gang warfare flick Trouble Man and the 1973 action movie The Spook Who Sat by the Door (which he also produced). For television, he directed Love Is Not Enough  (1978), the series Palmerstown, U.S.A. (1980), the detective series Hawaiian Heat (1984), and the telemovie Percy & Thunder (1993).      Also on the show will be Hip Hop feature filmmaker Tim Greene of WWW.TIMGREENEFILMS.COM and The Ultimate Hip Hop Motion Picture Consortium. Tim will talk about his new infomercial deal and about the major Hollywood studio buzz going around on his new G-Rated Kid’s Hip Hop comedy film.   Is Tim Greene The New “Disney” Of Hip Hop Film  By Josh Miller  http://www.timgreenefilms.com/DISNEYOFHIPHOP.html     Greene Machine: From Backstage Magazine  By Ben Rock  http://www.timgreenefilms.com/Backstagestory.html    Tim Greene is “The Peoples” Filmmaker  By Kam Williams  http://www.timgreenefilms.com/NewsStory.html