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FASHION TOYS

 

 

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The talent of Stephen Burrows. One of America's few black, internationally acclaimed, top award-winning, fashion designers, that have etched their mark in the world of garment art and haute couture, since the '70s. Of his contemporaries, De La Renta, Saint Laurent, Ungaro, Cardin, and Bohan have all been immortalised in film at least once. Halston, very well done twice, plus a limited series. But, where's the inclusion and tribute to a pioneering legend that not only dresses the rich, famous, and beautiful - but makes fashion available to the masses. Please, let's do this before he leaves this planet as a living cultural legend. Show a brother some love. 

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My personal connection to the genius of Stephen Burrows is not only from my years working in fashion (as a model and a dressmaker). But my mom and aunt (who worked from home as professional dressmakers, in Spanish, modistas), regularly attended the traveling Ebony Fashion Fair shows that stopped at Dillard University, where the event was showcased. (Our house was a 15-minute walk from the campus. Back in them days, people walked around the neighborhood.) The itinerant schedule was employed to expose a greater audience of women of color to high fashion, that were living in areas, not as accessible to high fashion by the contributing designers. And to raise funds for worthy causes within the community. Their attendance at the shows piqued my interest in fashion from a very early age. From my teens to my 40s, 99% of my wardrobe was hand-crafted to Vogue Patterns "Designer Label" standards. I never knew what it was like to feel a scratchy label on the neck of my dressy and smart garments.

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If I Take One More F**king Pill

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                                                                    (feature-length, drama, based                                                                      on personal life experience                                                                          and events. 

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Besides struggling with her religious fundamentalist mother, and a demanding career, a determined young woman battles her painful and chronic illness that's caused by dysfunction of the auto-immune system. 

 

 

NYE - New Orleans: Who Was Mark Essex?

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Based on tragic and true events, that occurred on and up to        New Year's Eve 1972, in downtown New Orleans. Based on, "A Terrible Thunder" book by Peter Hernon.

 

The Carwash

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                                                (remake of a 1976 feature-length                                                                comedy, with dramatic situations.                                                              Timeline: present-day)

    

 

 

 

 

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A comedic take, on an employee-owned car wash. Chronicling their hopes, fears, joys, dreams, tribulations, supported by neighborhood characters and local bon vivants - while servicing eccentric customers along the way.

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An Agent Named Orange

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                                                        (feature-length, drama. Timeline:                                                                present-day)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Based on the first case won by a US veteran against the use of Agent Orange and the long tragic history of its use by the US military)

 

And, I Never Got A Dime

 

 

 

 

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​​​​​Based on the life events of the revolutionary, self-taught, multi-patent holder, inventor Mary Kenner.  With the help of the book, "Forgotten Women: The Scientists" by author Zing Tsjeng. She came from a long line of Black Americans that were discriminated against but stayed true to their calling. “Every person is born with a creative mind,” “Everyone has that ability.” - Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner (b.1912- d. 2006)

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Foodiegans

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                                                                            (feature-length, comedy,                                                                      mindfulness, partially                                                                            based on true events.                                                                            Timeline: present-day)

 

 

 

​Let food and music be thy medicine. A once-famous, now jaded, middle-aged, well-schooled, chef in New Orleans, is barely working these days. Though he's not a fan, he gets the last-minute chance to revive his career, by being a personal chef to a mega-famous pop music singer. Whose music, dietary choices, and daily routine throw him a curveball. The memo was sent, he never got it. But, the experience leaves him a changed man for the better.

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ABANDONED

                                   

                                                  

 

                                                  (feature-length, period drama,                                                            supported by past events.                                                                    Timeline: WWII)

 

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There are times and places where being American counts for absolutely nothing at all to the US government. A story about an American boy (and others) betrayed by their country and wrongly imprisoned in National Social Party and Communist gulag labour camps.

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DEUTSCHLAND 

                                                               

                                                               

 

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Historical drama, supported by documented past events and revisionist history of Germany: before, in-between, and after the wars. Why did two major wars take place in Germany? What does Germany have that other countries don't?

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Hermetica

(period, trilogy biopic)

The mission and sacrifice of Giordano Bruno (senior contemporary of Galileo who never recanted and was burnt at the stake) a legendary Italian philosopher and teacher of Syncretism  (all sciences and wisdom together). Based on the trilogy novel series: Heresy, Conspiracy, & Sacrilege by SJ Parris.

 

alpha omega

(sci-fi fantasy/syncretism/occult/mysticism. Partly based on factual historical events).

From where has life on Earth come and where does it go? A hidden ancient codex from another dimension is unraveled by a famous linguist who holds the key to the knowledge of ALL things - Earth. (Based on my research on syncretism and the occult).

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Eter

(altered consciousness, sci-fi, historical)  A mainstream scientist working in telecommunications, doubts her educated and calculated beliefs in traditional theories after she recounts that she received a phone call from a dear friend just before he died tragically. A call, that was NEVER made by her friend. She then investigates fringe science, 18th -century through 20th-century mainstream scientists, etheric communication scientists and their concepts, and undergoes esoteric practices and rituals to find out the nature of Earth and all life (past and present) upon it. She then realizes that she must change to reflect and honour her true self.

 

Slytherin

(paranormal) A family visits their ancestral home in eastern Europe after the death of a close relative. During the trip, their young daughter tells them of a strange experience whilst going to a bombed and abandoned area of the village (with her much older cousins), where she encountered a homeless man living in a dilapidated building. She's only believed by a long-time friend of their deceased relative. On the way back home, the family visits Manhattan and Ground Zero, where she again has a strange experience, which the parents again dismiss as make-believe. Upon returning home angels, fairies, ghosts, and strange entities regularly visit her whilst she's alone and in her bedroom before she sleeps. Again, she's not believed by her parents, until they happen to meet a parapsychologist who has informal sessions with her and acknowledges that the child's experiences during her trance-like state are very real. After her parents are accepting of the doctor's diagnosis, the girl allows them to "see" these entities.

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Vibes

(drama/paranormal, based on personal life events. Timeline: 1960s to present-day)

A woman retraces her psychic connections and ancestry in order to become a spiritual healer. My own journey of psychic, religious, occult, esoteric, spiritual connections, paranormal and supernatural events, toward personal enlightenment.

 

The Women Living on the Streets

(documentary)

A contemporary story about what it's like to be without a home and a woman living on the streets of East London.

 

Hail Britannia

(documentary)

Invasion, mass murder, torture, and castration of indigenous peoples in Australia, Kenya, Tasmania, and Madagascar by the British government.

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The Ladies of Song 

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Iconic cultural divas documentary series

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Josephine Baker/Freda Josephine McDonald ​​

Ella Fitzgerald

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Sarah Vaughan

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Shirley Horn

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Carmen McRae

 

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