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Soapbox
Production presents
A
John Brown X Production film
AS AN ACT OF PROTEST
written
and directed by Dennis Leroy Moore
AFRO-AMERICAN
CULTURAL CENTER IN CHARLOTTE
401
North Myers Street (corner of 7th and McDowell
Streets)
Phone:
704-374-1565
Saturday,
February 15th @ 3:00pm
Suggested
donation $2
Filmmaker
Dennis Leroy Moore will be present for Questions and Answers
As
An Act of Protest,
a new feature-film by New York guerilla first time filmmaker and
theatre director Dennis Leroy Moore. Moore, 26 years old, wrote,
directed and acted in this film, which is more like a classical
African-American Theatre piece rather than a conventional foray
into narrative cinema. As
An Act of Protest is fierce, intense, and
visceral. Set in
New York City, the story focuses on Cairo Medina, a young black
actor, and his “rite-of-passage-station-of-the-cross”
journey to escape the psychological torture of colonization by
searching for ways to counter the effects of racism and police
brutality before they destroy him. Moore’s As
An Act of Protest introduces
a new voice to the world of underground cinema, and it is a
clear line in the sand, which demands the eradication of racism,
and oppression in all forms. The film sheds light on the new
generation of black American artists and the repressed rage of
the Black male in particular, which he is seldom free to
express.
“As An Act of Protest—Best
Black Movie Nobody Will See This Year”
—Kam
Williams, The Black World Today, November 27, 2002 http://www.tbwt.com/blackworldradio/reviews/review.asp?reviewid=211
“… raw, provocative, and
demanding”
—Miami
Herald Tribune
“Race is an unspoken issue…that’s
why this film is important.”
—Ayuko
Babu, Pan African Film Festival
“A powerful film that aims to teach
and shock and succeed on both
counts”
—Walter
Dawkins, Variety Magazine
Yo!
These folk, Dennis Leroy Moore and Melissa Dymock, writer
and producer respectively, are SOMETHING ELSE!
Their film, As An Act Of Protest, is extraordinarily riveting and current -
about a young Black actor who's facing the extremism of
untreated racism/colorism in American society and can't (not
that he SHOULD!) forget Amadou Diallo and ALL of the other
slaughtered Brothers. Just
thought I'd share the delight I feel being in touch with such
talented and focused young Folk!
—Carol Taylor, Activist and Creator of the Little
Black Book
Film
History:
Pan
African Film Festival, La February 2002
American
Black Film Festival, South Beach Miami June 2002
Anthology
Film Archives, New York City July 2002
Brecht
Forum-Visual Liberation Talk/Film Festival, NYC September 2002
imagenation Film
Festival, Harlem New York November 2002
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update 1
July 2008
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