Aqeel Ash-Shakoor
Street Code Broken
Two life-long friends come to crossroads when one decides that street life isn't what he wants. Loyalty is tested when the unwritten rules of street code protocol are broken.
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Cain and Abel
The traumas of childhood differences and disappointments leads two brothers on totally different paths. Finding their way back to one another, will the childhood traumas they've endured be too much and drive them even further apart?
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One Sweet Night
One Sweet Night is an elegant, dramatic tragedy of American history told in a visceral and impactful way. It is a short narrative film that focuses on one key part of a larger story of Ossian and Gladys Sweet, the NAACP, and African Americans from around the country’s struggle for economic freedom and just housing policies. The short film starts on a hot summer night in 1920s Detroit. Dr. Ossian Sweet and his wife Gladys are spending their second night in the new home they have purchased on an all-white street. The family, anticipating trouble, invites several guests for protection. One Sweet Night focuses on the internal tension of the main characters as they face racial violence while trapped inside a house that is their only protection. The story presents several different reactions from the violence terrorizing them from outside. The most compelling being the central character, Ossian, who confronts his greatest fear and forces integration into American history.
Apple TVApple iTunesOne Sweet Night
One Sweet Night is an elegant, dramatic tragedy of American history told in a visceral and impactful way. It is a short narrative film that focuses on one key part of a larger story of Ossian and Gladys Sweet, the NAACP, and African Americans from around the country’s struggle for economic freedom and just housing policies. The short film starts on a hot summer night in 1920s Detroit. Dr. Ossian Sweet and his wife Gladys are spending their second night in the new home they have purchased on an all-white street. The family, anticipating trouble, invites several guests for protection. One Sweet Night focuses on the internal tension of the main characters as they face racial violence while trapped inside a house that is their only protection. The story presents several different reactions from the violence terrorizing them from outside. The most compelling being the central character, Ossian, who confronts his greatest fear and forces integration into American history.
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