"Fall HARDER!" -Support Brothers Shooting...Film! 3 Days Left!

People don't support enough positive things. If you're part of that percentage that wants to do SOMETHING worthy with your money besides buying candy from a young kid to help him purchase that basketball uniform he's been working hard toward, then here's a PERFECT opportunity! Close to completing their FOURTH feature, Sunshowah Films needs you to help them reach their goal of 20.000 (3 days left) by donating thru their Kickstarter campaign. Here's the details of why? and where? you can begin...

"...The Harder They Fall"

Nearly twelve years after the death of his mother, and with an ever growing distance between him and his father, 12-year-old Jabari is on the road to nowhere – and fast. After getting kicked out of school and putting his life in danger, Jabari's father, Wayne, decides that the only option is to send his son to stay with his grandparents in Settlement, Jamaica, with the hope that the older couple will have better luck reaching the boy. Will Jabari bridge the gap between his anger over a childhood lost and embrace the young manhood that awaits him, or will his future be lost forever? Follow Sunshowah Films (Daoud Abeid & Dahkil Hausif) and Streetwise Pictures (Kim Jackson) as they travel from the streets of Brooklyn to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica in a coming of age tale.

"Shoot At You Actors Like..." -Premire Srceening TONIGHT!

Try if you can to remember back to when I posted up a feature about these BK cats that are DOIN' IT on the film side of things in Bed-Stuy? Well even if you don't, I just wanted to let you know that their film is to be debuted TONIGHT! Yes, tonight, and yours truly has a "you can't blink for a second" cameo up in that piece. They wanted Don Cheadle to portray me, but he's like "He's TOO complex to be captured on film..." So he passed. Oh well his lost. Anyway, arrive early for good seats.

Monday August 4th
Sunshowah's "Shades of Brooklyn" -Secret Screening.

Habana Outpost Screening Room (it's downstairs)
7:30pm Sharp
Take the C train to Lafayette
Get there on time for a good seat.

http://www.sunshowah.com/

"They Shooting...I Made You Look!"-Black on Black Film

Usually in my neck of the woods when young cats are "shooting", people tend to run the opposite direction. However when it's for a NEW movement in film, then folks are slow to run towards it. But not in this case. On a cloudy Sun morn, the Coup d'Etat Crew was rolling film on another indy project. I can't give away the synopsis quite yet but come screening time I'll send out an invite. Also look for the Minority Report's cameo debut.

"Black & Gold"-The Oscars Black Eye

This year as the Academy Awards turns the ripe old age of 80, I decided to do some research on OUR history w/ the "golden guy," being that this year it will be even harder to find faces of color among the celebrated crowd. If you haven't been keeping abreast of the nominations, Long time actress Rudy Dee will be the only African-
American up for an award Sunday. In the 80 yrs. that awards have been handed out, only 25 blacks have gone home with one, here's that line up:
Hattie McDaniel, Best Actress in a Supporting Role Gone With the Wind (1939).
James Baskett, Honorary Award for Uncle Remus, (1946)
Sidney Poitier, Best Actor in a Leading Role for Lilies of the Field (1963).
Isaac Hayes, Best Music, Original Song for "Theme from Shaft" from Shaft (1971).
Louis Gossett, Jr., Best Actor in a Supporting Role for An Officer and a Gentleman (1982).
Irene Cara, Best Music, Original Song for Flashdance (1983).
Prince, Best Music, Original Song Score for Purple Rain (1984).
Stevie Wonder, Best Music, Original Song for The Woman in Red (1984).
Lionel Richie, Best Music, Original Song for White Nights (1985).
Herbie Hancock, Best Music, Original Score for 'Round Midnight (1986).
Willie D. Burton, Best Sound for Bird (1988)
Denzel Washington, Best Actor in a Supporting /Lead Role for
Glory / Training Day (1989/2001).
Russell Williams II, Best Sound for Glory (1989)
Whoopi Goldberg, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Ghost (1990).
Russell Williams II, Best Sound for Dances With Wolves (1990)
Quincy Jones, 1995 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
Cuba Gooding, Jr., Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Jerry Maguire (1996).
Halle Berry, Best Actress in a Leading Role for Monster's Ball (2001).
Sidney Poitier, Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award
Jamie Foxx, Best Actor in a Leading Role for Ray (2004).
Morgan Freeman, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman, and Paul Beauregard [Three 6 Mafia], Best Music, Original Song from Hustle & Flow (2005).
Forest Whitaker, Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Last King of Scotland (2006).
Jennifer Hudson, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Dreamgirls (2006).
Willie D. Burton, Best Achievement in Sound Mixing for Dreamgirls (2006)

Root for Ruby and CHANGE this Sunday night while you watch.