Thursday, July 8
Colony Theater, 8:30 pm
Five filmmakers vie for a grand prize of $20,000 to be announced at ABFF Honors, July 9.
Ryan Coogler
WINNER: HBO Short Film Award
FIG world premiere
2011 USA 15 MIN HD
SCR/DIR: Alex George Pickering/ Ryan Coogler
CAST: Jontille Gerard, Jessica Tome, Charline St. Charles
Candace is a young single mother in South Los Angeles. One night, when she is without food or money, she makes a desperate choice--and risks losing the most important thing in her life, as the bond with her daughter is put to the ultimate test.
Ka'ramuu Kush
SALVATION ROAD world premiere
2011 USA 18 MIN HD
SCR/DIR: Michael Cobain, Ka'ramuu Kush and Greg Hendrick/ Ka'ramuu Kush
CAST: Russell Hornsby, Michael J. Harney, Roger Guenveur Smith
Business becomes unusual for an unsuspecting hitman who senses that he's been witnessed murdering his traitorous mentor by a 9-year-old boy.
Jason Camp
FOR FLOW world premiere
2011 USA 18 MIN HD
SCR/DIR: Kesav Wable/ Jason Camp
CAST: Brian D. Coats, Cherrye Davis, Vladimi Versailles, Devere Rogers
Dee and Kane are two aspiring MCs (rappers) searching for a way to climb out of the hard-knock lives they've been forced to lead. On a lonely street corner in the Bronx, they wait for a record producer in hopes that the meeting will change their lives forever.
Nelsan Ellis
PAGE 36 world premiere
2011 USA 20 MIN HD
SCR/DIR: Nelsan Ellis
CAST: Roger Guenveur Smith, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Coley Mustafa Speaks
Roman Wilson, a recently paroled two-time felon, returns home to his overworked and underpaid girlfriend and their terminally ill son, who is in desperate need of medical care. With no positive employment prospects, and desperate for money, Roman signs a contract with a deadly clause.
Gershon Hinkson
THE TURTLE & THE NIGHTINGALE world premiere
2011 USA 20 MIN HD
SCR/DIR: Gershon Hinkson
CAST: Paul Barber, Lawrence Daniels-White, George Johnston, Rapha'el Olakotan
In Crystal Palace, London, as three precocious twelve-year-olds navigate their already antagonizing lives at home, they also grapple with the issue of bullying in school-and learn a lesson about friendship that might cost one of them his life.
