African-American
Dope
Poor Malcolm seems like he should have been born in a different place and a different skin. He and his two best friends Jib and Diggy live in Bottoms the worst part of Los Angeles’s Inglewood where most of the population are either poor African/American or Latino. They however are fixated on BMX biking, classic…
Blackbird
Growing up gay in a small conservative town in the Deep South is tough enough, but as well as worrying about his religious parents reactions, 17 year-old choirboy Ricky is also concerned about upsetting Jesus too. Everybody in his close circle of school friends is more comfortable with his sexuality than he is, and even…
LEE DANIEL'S THE BUTLER
The epic domestic drama of how Cecil Gaines a young negro slave from a Southern cotton plantation evolved into a Butler to a string of US Presidents in The White House also serves as a backdrop for the birth and survival of the Civil Rights Movement through the last century. It’s a powerful tale that doesn’t…
Leave It On The Floor
When Brad’s homophobic mother discovers he is gay, she throws him out of the house. Sleeping rough in her old car (that he ‘liberated’) he finds a new home in the bizarre and wonderful world of ball culture. It’s an underground scene in which different ‘Houses’ compete on a dance floor catwalk to see who is…
