I learned about filmmaker Geno Brooks while screening Lamont Pierre’s "Talking with The Taxman about Poetry.” He shot the beautiful film, and I was curious to learn more about the man behind the camera. What I learned was that Geno is a 360 degree filmmaker. He directs, writes, acts, shoots, and produces feature films, new media projects (webseries), and more. I also learned that he is the co-founder of a boutique finance and distribution company called Band of Artists (Boa) with Lamont Pierre, and Jared Wofford. Last week in Los Angeles, Shadow and Act caught up with Geno to briefly discuss his filmmaker career journey, Season Two of his award winning...
- 3/29/2013
- by Masha Dowell
- ShadowAndAct
My screening of Lamont Pierre’s, “Talking with the Taxman about Poetry,” had all the trappings of a mysterious blind date. I did not know anything about the films storyline, I did not know anything about the director, and I did not have concrete intentions of actually seeing the film. It all happened by happenstance. Yet, I screened it, and I was deeply inspired by it, and I believe that you should catch it while you can at the 2013 Pan African Film Festival. The film tells a story about a writer named Theodore (Kareem Ferguson). He is an eccentric, intelligent, and depressed writer. He financially supports himself as a teacher. This film begins...
- 2/12/2013
- by Masha Dowell
- ShadowAndAct
Written and directed by filmmaker Lamont Pierre, Talking With The Taxman About Poetry is an indie drama interlaced with poetic flow.
The film stars Kareem Ferguson, singer Steph Jones, Diarra Kilpatrick and Vanessa Simmons (daughter of Joseph “Reverend Run” Simmons and co-founder of Pastry Shoes).
The synopsis for the film states:
Living a comfortably meaningless, anonymous, non-existent life as a recently fired substitute teacher, Theodore, an uninspired writer and literary scholar, is manipulated back to life when a local, lowly, enigmatic trumpet player, Seven, causes an awakening in him of passion, contradiction, and purpose through the medium of the written word.
This will be the third feature film by Pierre who’s previous films have screened at various film festivals including the San Francisco Black Film Festival and Atlanta Underground Film Festival.
The film stars Kareem Ferguson, singer Steph Jones, Diarra Kilpatrick and Vanessa Simmons (daughter of Joseph “Reverend Run” Simmons and co-founder of Pastry Shoes).
The synopsis for the film states:
Living a comfortably meaningless, anonymous, non-existent life as a recently fired substitute teacher, Theodore, an uninspired writer and literary scholar, is manipulated back to life when a local, lowly, enigmatic trumpet player, Seven, causes an awakening in him of passion, contradiction, and purpose through the medium of the written word.
This will be the third feature film by Pierre who’s previous films have screened at various film festivals including the San Francisco Black Film Festival and Atlanta Underground Film Festival.
- 2/27/2011
- by Cynthia
- ShadowAndAct
The 7th annual Atlanta Underground Film Festival is like having four different fests crammed into an exhaustive three days on Aug. 27-29. It’s an outrageous underground fest, an animation festival, a documentary fest and a horror movie festival: The culmination of a month of fests run by Atlanta’s Festival League. There’s tons of short films, documentaries, features and more.
There’s lots of great stuff to recommend, too. On the last night of the fest, there will be a screening of Chris Hansen‘s second feature film, Endings, which tells the touching story of three people spending their last day on Earth together. The film was reviewed on Bad Lit a few months ago. On the short film front, there’s Loretta Hintz‘s wild lesbian bestiality (sort of) tale, The Sheep and the Ranch Hand and two films by the perpetually awesome Neil Ira Needleman, Meeskit...
There’s lots of great stuff to recommend, too. On the last night of the fest, there will be a screening of Chris Hansen‘s second feature film, Endings, which tells the touching story of three people spending their last day on Earth together. The film was reviewed on Bad Lit a few months ago. On the short film front, there’s Loretta Hintz‘s wild lesbian bestiality (sort of) tale, The Sheep and the Ranch Hand and two films by the perpetually awesome Neil Ira Needleman, Meeskit...
- 8/18/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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