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FILM SHOWCASE LISTING -
"Prison Song"
Uncle Killa – 15 Min.
Urban Genesis – 17 Min.
The Second Coming – 10 Min.
Earl's Post Prison Playdate – 11 Min.
- Locations and Start Time -
Chaplin - Sat. 25 - 12pm
Fairbanks - Sun. 26 - 5:30pm
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FILMMAKERS & FILMS-
William Sutphin – Writer/Director
William is a New York-based filmmaker with roots in Virginia. He graduated from Hampton University before embarking on a teaching career in Harlem, New York, and later attended and received his M.F.A from Columbia University's prestigious Film Division. He has been named a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts fellow and has completed stints at Paradigm Literary and Talent Agency and Cinetic Media. He currently makes his home in Manhattan.
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Uncle Killa – 15 Min.
"Killa Kai" atones for his busted life by steering his nephew away from the same traps that felled him years earlier, but his nephew might already be gone. |
Larry Bryant - Writer/Director
Larry began his journey into the arts at the University of Massachusetts where he studied acting and received a B.A. in Theatre Arts. After undergrad, Larry headed west and enrolled in the prestigious graduate film program at USC School of Cinematic Arts where he earned an M.F.A. in Film Production. During his tenure at USC, Larry produced and directed numerous short films, and was awarded the Frank Sinatra and Gene Autry Scholarships. Most recently Larry has finished writing a feature length screenplay, and has finished work as a Line Producer on the independent feature Ten Years Later.
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Urban Genesis – 17 Min.
After serving twenty years in prison, Clifford comes home to live with his daughter Keisha, in hopes of making up for lost time. But the road to redemption will be harder than he thinks when he realizes that he has to deal with Keisha’s live-in boyfriend Boris, who is a mirror image of Clifford as a young man.
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Ya’Ke – Writer/Director
Ya’Ke can’t remember a time when the moving image did not interest him, and made his first film while a sophomore at Sam Houston High School in San Antonio, TX. Upon graduation from high school, Ya’Ke attended the University of The Incarnate Word, also in San Antonio, and made three films while there: Black Magic, which was a finalist in the Houston Multicultural Independent Film Festival, Family Reunion, which was a finalist in the Hollywood Black Film Festival, and Strange Fruit, which won the honorable mention award at the San Antonio branch of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers film slam. Ya’Ke is currently in his second year of Graduate Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is an M.F.A candidate in the Department of Radio-Television-Film.
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The Second Coming – 10 Min.
A father returns home to make amends with his son. |
Rod Gailes OBC – Writer/Director
As contributing director of the feature film,"6 Things I Never Told You", Rod Gailes OBC makes his New York museum debut, Aug. 31 at the Studio Museum in Harlem as part of retail giant, Target's Summer Sundays Series. OBC's films include his feature film debut, Camouflage," "Pharaoh Jones," and the award winning classic "Twin Cousins," which fellow NYU alum Spike Lee calls, "A beautifully photographed, masterfully directed portrait of childhood." In the coming year, OBC brings to the stage "Unspeakable," a dramatic fantasia on the life of Richard Pryor, and the pop/folk musical, "Colors: Dream Of the Masta.”
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Earl's Post Prison Playdate – 11 Min.
Set in Charleston, SC, in 1961, “Song of Pumpkin Brown” tells the story of ten-year old Pumpkin Brown, sent to the Jenkins Orphanage in Charleston, SC, after the death of his preacher father. There the shy, lonely boy is introduced to the jazz trumpet as a means of dealing with his grief and the first step in his destiny as a successful jazz musician. |
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