Color Me Creative - Q&A

Troy Pryor moderates a Facebook Live Q&A session with Angela McCrae (Director), Cathleen Campbell (Director) and Washington Kirk (Writer/Director) from the "Color Me Creative" shorts program.

Seven short films celebrate creativity and the imagination.

#Where is Beauty

Angela McCrae, 2018, 11 min

An introspective visual artist dealing with the pressures of social media embarks on a journey of self-discovery capturing everyday life through hashtags which unexpectedly transforms her perspective on beauty.

Langston Hughes: No Crystal Stair

Cathleen Campbell, 2020, 6 min

An evocative interpretation of Langston Hughes’s poem Mother to Son.

Lonnie Holley : I Woke Up in a Fucked Up America

Matt Arnett Ethan Payne, 2018, 6 min

Artist/composer Lonnie Holley’s steady stream of American artifacts, iconography, and sculptures confront our country’s grim racial legacy.

Raymond

Scott Ashby, 2020, 12 min

Needing cash to get his horn out of hock, a young musician gets caught up in a drug heist.

Frederick Douglass Boulevard

Washington Kirk, 2019, 15 min

In this satirical comedy, a struggling music-writer-cum-attorney living in Harlem concocts a ludicrous scheme to de-gentrify the neighborhood.

Snowball

Paul Rivet, 2018, 14 min

A struggling actor finds hard-won success bitter when appearing in whiteface brings him the lead role in a hit TV series.

Opus

Kgosana Monchusi Javier v González, 2019, 18 min

Set in the buzzing city of Johannesburg, OPUS follows a day in the life of Lebo, a young aspiring bassist whose dream is to play in the national orchestra. In Tswana with English subtitles.

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