 Royal wrote and appeared in the short film "World's Not for Me", in which he plays a jazz musician who awakens from a near 30 year coma to find a world he no longer recognizes musically, culturally or financially.The film won the Harlem Spotlight Best Narrative Short Award at the Harlem International Film Festival in September, 2016.Most recently, Royal co-founded The BeBop Channel, the first TV network focused solely on Jazz culture.