NUBIAN KNIGHTS NETWORK: Thursday, August 5, 2010

QUOTATIONS OF "BLACK"

"Whenever I use BLACK it relates to some history of Africans in that particular place. It’s the idea of the color BLACK as a metaphor, or as a representation of African-Americans. It’s the notion of BLACK- BLACKNESS - and all its other meanings in relation to the history of race..."

- Fred Wilson

"Most of my fortitude to continue doing the work comes from the moral outrage I feel about the injustices that Black people endure disproportionately daily."

- N. Abdul-Wakil

"In the end, what matters is not skin shade but pan-African consciousness. Loving your complexion, your nose, lips, hair length and texture, no matter what the politics or trends decide, and simply be. That's the problem with us (African folks). We're still learning how to love ourselves. So used to glorifying others and putting others first..."

- Dredlocks Tree

Thursday, August 5, 2010

In The Works: Writer/Director Rodney Evans'
"Day Dream" Set For Fall 2010 Shoot;
Starring Anthony Mackie, Idris Elba & Aunjanue Ellis

Writer/Director Rodney Evans (Pictured Far Right Above)

Rodney Evans “Day Dream” Set For Fall 2010 Shoot; Anthony Mackie, Idris Elba & Aunjanue Ellis To Star

(A Film About The Life Of Harlem Renaissance Music Composer & Jazz Legend Billy Strayhorn and Legendary Cornetist Buddy Bolden)

Excerpt:
A filmmaker mentioned on the Shadow And Act 2010 list of filmmakers to watch, Rodney Evans (Brother To Brother) was recently spotlighted on indieWIRE‘s “In The Works” feature.

Within the profile was information on Evans’ second feature film, Day Dream, which, as the feature title suggests, is in the works, and is also an IFP Labs project. The film already has its cast attached in Anthony Mackie (who also starred in Brother To Brother), Idris Elba and Aunjanue Ellis.

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Day Dream
Writer/Director/Producer: Rodney Evans
Producers: Shelby Stone, Gavin Humphries and Anna Higgs
Editor: Sabine Hoffman
Cast: Anthony Mackie, Idris Elba, Aunjanue Ellis

Excerpt:

Still high off the experience of taking his film “Brother to Brother” to Sundance in 2004, Rodney Evans dove right back into American Black history and discovered the stories of jazz greats Billy Strayhorn and Buddy Bolden. “Brother to Brother” is an exploration of the Harlem Renaissance and is peppered with the queer sexualities of the major players of the great art epoch. Evans new film, “Day Dream,” about Strayhorn and Bolden, was written after Evans read David Hajdu Billy Strayhorn biography “Lush Life” and Michael Ondaatje exploration of Bolden, “Coming Through Slaughter.” “Day Dream” follows openly gay jazz composer Billy Strayhorn as he searches through New Orleans to discover the myth surrounding jazz legend Buddy Bolden, who spent the last quarter decade of his life in a mental institution.