BLACK FILM -VOTE YOUR CHOICE

As your time permits, take the Chase Film Challenge and go to the link below to vote on your favorite of the four films below ( scroll down further to view the embedded videos as well)

For my cup of green tea they all our winners and deserve applause and support.

We can not continue to view reality as separate and distinct moments in time ( start and stopping like a stop watch). For example the western historical establishments of attempting to define the the abolitionist movement, the reconstruction period, the red summer, the civil rights movement and the black power movement as episodes rather than understanding that the human liberation movement does not stop and start and stop and start. Name a day or a month since the arrival of political and economic prisoners from the birth land mass of human kind that folks have not died in outright resistance to European and American state methods of terror? But I digress.

The energetic and catalytic flow of collective and individual experience becomes sterile, academic, divisive and elitist if we endeavor to replicate a shop worn and fatal western industrial-post industrial- world model of best, more best, the only best, the best of......

These films are powerful individually and collectively. Rank them if you would like. But also enjoy them in their harmonious sankofa totality of experiencing the past-present-and future as a unitary embedded moment of constant and eternal transformation.

Each of the films strike me as stylistically different. To chose the best also defeats the purpose of celebrating the many levels and realities of self expression. Is the historical view the best? Is the comical view the best? Is the alternate reality-twilight zone-genre the best? Is a child world depiction more authentic from a legacy standpoint?

Some might want to judge the four films from the "modern" traditional story arc of being able to trace the linear story progression of beginning-middle-end, perhaps best exemplified by the" Porters."

I would suggest after watching the" Porters" review in your mind if the film would not be as powerful if the sequence of scenes were reversed with the film "beginning" with the last scene and "ending" with the first scene.

Our legacy is both linear and cyclical. Our legacy began in the cradle of humankind in East Africa and is ever expanding.

Some might suggest that comedy could be the best way of conveying our legacy. Perhaps the comic view represents the most enduring legacy and testament. In spite of historical and ancestral persecution, terrorism, invasion, mutilation,humiliation,castration, domination,exploitation, and all of other legal and illegal assaults on our hearth,home and spirit levity still manifests !


http://www.blackfilm.com/chasefilmchallenge/votenow.html


Sharing Stories of Legacy Through Film
The Chase Legacy Film Challenge industry panel has narrowed the field to four amazing filmmakers. Now it’s up to you! Cast your vote for the recipient of the HBO Filmmaker Award.



The Porter is a character study that spans three generations and examines a family's struggle to become homeowners.


The Porter - Vincent Singleton from Blackfilm.com on Vimeo.








Crystle “Clear” Roberson
Next Door's Next
Next Door's Next forces you to think about the future. What will we leave behind? Or will we just be left behind?


Next Door's Next - Crystle “Clear” Roberson from Blackfilm.com on Vimeo.





Adetoro Makinde
It Takes A Village
While a city still heals in the wake of a storm, a little boy discovers how to be a Little Man.


It Takes A Village - Adetoro Makinde from Blackfilm.com on Vimeo.





Marc Newsome
Here Comes The Neighborhood
Here Comes the Neighborhood is a satirical short comedy chronicling the effects of the gentrification of a fictitious African American neighborhood, Our Legacy Estates. Told in vignette form we glimpse into the lives of the homeowners and the opportunists who desire their homes.


Here Comes The Neighborhood - Marc Newsome from Blackfilm.com on Vimeo.




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