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FILM SHOWCASE LISTING -
"of Love and Honor"
An Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl – 19 Min.
The Birthday Girl – 16 Min.
After – 8 Min.
Papichulo – 20 Min.
Trust – 5 Min.
Lifted – 29 Min.
Choices – 13 Min.
The Mattress Hustle - 21 Min.
Premature – 15 Min.
- Locations and Start Time -
Fairbanks - Sat. 25 - 5:30pm
Chapllin - Sun. 26 - 2:30pm
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FILMMAKERS & FILMS-
Karen Hayes - Director
Karen Hayes produced and directed the narrative short “An Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl,” based on the 1861 autobiography of abolitionist Harriet Jacobs. She made this film as part of the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women. Karen is also producing and directing the authorized documentary feature THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD: DESMOND TUTU AND RECONCILATION. She has been given unique access to Archbishop Desmond Tutu and has filmed his life and work internationally over twelve years. The film is in post-production. Karen holds a M.F.A. in Film and Television Production from UCLA.
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An Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl – 19 Min.
An enslaved woman in the pre-civil war South faces her choice between freedom of body and spirit, and in the process re-defines its very notion. Drama based on the autobiography of abolitionist Harriet Jacobs |
Angela Tucker – Writer/Director
Angela is a filmmaker based in NYC. She has been the Director of Production at Arts Engine Inc/Big Mouth Films for the past six years. She received an MFA in Film from Columbia University where she received a Dean’s Fellowship and a grant from The Academy of Arts and Sciences. She completed two short films for The National Black Programming Consortium's Masculinity Project entitled Invisible Men. She is directing a feature length documentary, Asexuality: the Making of a Movement.
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The Birthday Girl – 16 Min.
It’s Mia’s birthday and she is convinced that tonight is the night that will change her life. She invites her friends out to a lounge to celebrate. A blast from her past, Patrick Nelson, comes and she thinks that she might get lucky tonight. But when her friend Chelsea arrives, it is clear that, like usual, Mia will be left on the sidelines. Things don’t always go the way you plan!
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Kiara Jones – Writer / Director
The daughter of a Bronx/Brooklyn love affair, Kiara began her creative career as a poet and hip hop artist. She transformed her love for storytelling into an award-winning career in broadcast radio and television. After traveling the world exploiting her talents on and off camera, she settled under the bright neon lights of Las Vegas, producing live shows and events. Kiara is happy to return to her roots in New York and plant herself in the fertile soil of New York University, where she is embracing her next evolution as a filmmaker.
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After – 8 Min.
A woman discovers that her heart is in all the wrong places. Olivia is a smart, sexy, successful young woman who is trying to balance her professional goals with her personal desires. Unfortunately, she’s failed to nurture some elements of her personal life as she's focused on her career. Luckily, she has a housekeeper to help clean up the mess she’s making of her life. Behind every great woman, there is a great woman. |
Marquis Smalls - Writer/Director
Marquis Smalls was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Upon graduating from Brooklyn Tech High School, he enrolled at Penn State University and earned a B.A. in African/African-American studies. Marquis enrolled in the NYU continuing education program and earned a certificate in screenwriting in 1997. Smalls recently made his directorial debut with his short film, “Papichulo.”
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Papichulo – 20 Min.
“Papichulo” follows a young Puerto-Rican actor from his home life to the audition stage and back. Chulo is intent on pursuing his dreams of becoming a professional actor, against the wishes of his mother and live-in girlfriend Carmen. With a son to take care of, and everyday struggles to contest with, everyone wants him to get a “real job” and focus on raising his family. What does it take to achieve your dreams? |
Marcus J. Thomas – Writer/Director
Born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, Marcus J. Thomas has always been fascinated with movies, music, and anything pop culture related. In 2002, Marcus graduated from the University of Houston where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Media Production and Corporate Communication. Marcus began his career working as a Production Assistant on numerous music videos and commercials. Equipped with everything he learned while working on set, he began directing his own music videos and short films.
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Trust – 5 Min.
Relationships are complicated. This is especially true when one of the persons involved is still carrying baggage from their previous relationship. Being cheated on in a previous relationship has made Nicole somewhat paranoid. Are things the way they seem or is she falling into a pattern of self-sabotage? |
Randall Dottin Writer/Director
Randall Dottin received his Directing MFA from Columbia University. His thesis film, “A-Alike” won the DGA Award for Best African American Student Filmmaker, was licensed by HBO in 2003 and won the Gold Medal for Best Narrative Film at the 2004 Student Academy Awards. His second short film “Lifted,” was co-sponsored by Fox Searchlight's program for emerging directors, the Fox Searchlab. Since its premiere in the spring of 2007, “Lifted” has gone on to screen at over 25 film festivals and has won 9 festival awards at film festivals in Dallas, Boston, San Francisco and Norfolk, Virginia. Recently, Randall was the co-recipient of the $100,000 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Grant for his first feature, Indelible. The grant is for first time writer/director teams who tell realistic stories about science. Indelible is the story of a black female scientist who races to find a cure for a rare disease that killed her husband and threatens to kill her teenaged son.
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Lifted – 29 Min.
Deena Justice has dreams of becoming one of the greatest dancers who ever lived, but she's a single mom and hasn't had a gig in years. When she fails the biggest audition of her life, she finds herself trapped in a subway station after abandoning her child. Will she get out? And who trapped her? |
Matthew Jones – Writer / Director
Matthew Jones is a senior Torrey Honors Institute student attending Biola University, majoring in Cinema and Media Arts. In June 2006, Jones completed Be the Man, which was filmed during his freshmen year at Biola. The film was awarded the 2006 DGA Student Film Award: African-American. In 2007 Matthew was a Disney/ABC Production Intern on ABC’s General Hospital. That same summer he interned at Cooke Pictures as a script reader/production assistant then with Warner Bros TV at New Deal Productions as an assistant to the Head of Television Programming, Kelly Goode. Finally, he was a Warner Bros STARS Intern working at New Line Cinema in Development under SVP Walter Hamada.
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Choices – 13 Min.
A story about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and contemplates having an abortion by seeking help from those closest to her—from telling her best friend to seeking advice from her mom and attempting to be comfortable with a final decision with her boyfriend. She is left alone to make a choice that will affect her life and that of her unborn child. |
Susan Watson Turner – Director
Vanessa Turner – Writer
Susan began her career in Cleveland, Ohio at the Karamu Theatre. She has directed regional and off – Broadway theatre. Ms. Watson Turner served for several years at the Negro Ensemble Company as General Manager and then Producing Director working on "A Soldier's Play," "Lifetimes on the Streets," "Home," "The Absolution of Willie Mae," and many others. Ms. Turner has composed a work based on the life of Nikki Giovanni "The Fire Inside" which was produced at the Ingenuity Festival and Karamu Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio. Her one-woman show entitled "Muladu and the Bible" was a finalist in the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference 2007 in New Orleans. Ms. Turner has also been produced at the Village Gate Theatre. Ms. Watson Turner has produced a feature length movie entitled Blinded by Love and is the director of several short films and documentaries among which "The Mattress Hustle" and "The Journey of Seven Guitars." Ms. Watson Turner is currently a Professor of Theatre at CUNY - Lehman College.
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The Mattress Hustle - 21 Min.
A sexy romantic comedy about an unemployed African American couple in NYC. They have reluctantly moved back home. With little chance for privacy, they create innovative ways to satisfy their healthy appetite for lovemaking. |
Rashaad Ernesto Green – Writer / Director
Starting his career as an actor, Bronx native Rashaad Ernesto Green received a BA from Dartmouth College and a MFA from the NYU Graduate Acting Program. He currently studies film at NYU's Graduate Film Program. Rashaad recently returned from Tanzania where he shot a documentary following a group of high school students who studied literacy through drama and performance for the summer. The world premiere of "Premature" at the 2008 American Black Film Festival won the Grand Prize for Best Short Film in the HBO Short Film Competition.
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Premature – 15 Min.
After Tisha, a streetwise teenager from the Bronx, discovers she's pregnant and receives no support from her community, she has nowhere to turn and is faced with the most difficult decision she will ever make. |
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