And The People Could Fly Film

Thank you, Mr. Poitier. 🕊🕯💜 +++++++++ After the Director's Guild of America Luncheon for 2011 PAFF Directors with a waymaker, Sidney Poitier

Today, I share my short film, "And the People Could Fly" with the world, craig! @atpcfly made its run festival-wise and i was blessed to sit in dark rooms with humans and the big screen with it. now, it's time for it to reach you wherever you be at, beloveds. celebrating the dynamic and dope folk who collaborated on this film! 🏆🏆🏆 LINK IN BIO enjoy and share if you feeling it! 📸 by @ourstrangenewland ✨❤️

zoooooom face for a Q&A with @rooftopfilms members only shorts showcase. @atpcfly still making it’s rounds. It’s always a gift to talk about my matriarchs and their way making for my own art practice. I know I’m in my current and they haven’t left me. Grace abounds✨✨✨

Before there was @atpcfly , there was Grace. Grace chronicles a woman’s desperate attempt to escape her inner turmoil through heroine use and a mother’s supernatural efforts to rescue her. Jeannie is eight months pregnant and struggling to keep her heroine addiction at bay, but tonight her painful past ambushes her and she can no longer resist the need to cop. Deep in the throes of her high, she goes into labor and as if jolted by her daughter’s suffering, Annie throws herself on the altar of God. After her Holy Ghost experience, Annie enters the dope house and performs a miracle. 2010

@neworleansfilmfestival was balm for my entire soul! It was a veritable reunion 🍯🍯🍯

And the People Could Fly racked up at @idlewildfilmfest last weekend!!! Winner for Best Performance by rising star, Avye’ Luz Garcia, Best Production Design by our beloved @michaelapilarbrown and Best Director Roni Nicole Henderson @movingpicshow 🎉🎉🎉💯💯💯🏆🏆🏆 Thanks for the LOVE!!! @jolinoire @sethgadsden

Up next for @atpcfly !!!🎉🎉 We have been accepted into the 2019 @neworleansfilmfestival 🕺🏾🕺🏾🕺🏾 Can’t wait to share this film with this amazing audience. This is truly a team effort and I am so blessed to have manifested a personal work with @ericbranco @sethgadsden @tlangdance @juju_lotuslove @michaelapilarbrown @melozed @clarkconquers @jayasgram @jolinoire @deni_mh @ciscostreetlenz @ourstrangenewland @umojaizm @eyesackudawgoo @renogooch @lizhck @6ixx_n_dacity @soda_city_studios @hilarryous_f @shadetreekdee #FifiMpezo #MarthaBrim ++++ many mo. Thank you @indiegrits + @indiegrants for helping to make my dream come true.

The brilliant one @melozed dropped an album today!!!! It BANGS and promises to bloom on repeat! Check it out, beloveds—he’s amazing and I’m so proud and thankful to have had his offerings as composer on @atpcfly 🏆

When I moved to Columbia, SC, I became fast friends with an artist whose work I had long admired. @michaelapilarbrown is an artist’s artist and when she puts her deft hand to materials, they bend toward otherworldly. Her performances, installations, paintings and mixed media pieces leave an imprint and her work as Production Designer on @atpcfly is no different. 📷s by @ciscostreetlenz // @streetlenz72

I first met @ericbranco at @blackstarfest some years ago when we were on a panel together. After our respective presentations, we knew we’d work together one day. I called and Eric said yes to joining @atpcfly team as Cinematographer. 🎉He is magic and by magic I mean he shows up, dressed in uniform, focused and knowledgeable af, works hard till the work is done and every now and then, hits you with a dry ass joke. Oh, and he lensed CLEMENCY (dir. Chinonye Chukwu), which took home the Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. 🌞 📷s by @ciscostreetlenz // @streetlenz72

@ciscostreetlenz //@streetlenz72 blessed us with sooooo many gorgeous photos from the @atpcfly set! He sees us with grace and grit and we love him!!! #Yofavoritephotographersfavoritephotographer #angelrodrigues #streetlenzphotography

Where do i begin? My love for Blackstar Film Festival begins where everything I love begins...in my love for the PEOPLE who envision, plan, petition, make space and make shit happen--For US! @maorikarmael 's vision goes beyond big ideas (but trust honey, BIG IDEAS abound with this one!), it extends to details that make US FEEL her love for us. She thinking about how you feel when you sit in that theater and soak in pure magic in an audience that is magic! BIG ass shouts to the gorgeous souls who make my favorite place so amazing. If we glowing in this photo, it's cause WE FULL on the experience that be BLACKSTAR. Thank you, loved ones. ++++ This year, @atpcfly screens on Saturday, August 3rd! Every August for the last seven years the @blackstarfest has taken place in Philadelphia. Last year @365Ken took this portrait of @umojaizm & I after the Awards Ceremony. The BlackStar Film Festival celebrates its eight year this August from 1-4! Visit blackstarfest.org to see the lineup of over 100 films showcasing black, brown and indigenous filmmakers. This year, @atpcfly screens on Saturday, August 3rd! BE THERE!!!