I am KinlochDOCUMENTARY SHORT
by Daniel E. Williams 4:50 pm SLC - ROOM 115 |
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Description: Jacqueline Williams, a former resident of Kinloch, the first and largest all-black incorporated city in Missouri, shares her personal memories of being raised in this St. Louis suburb. Her stories and those of other former residents contrast with the stark, almost ghost-town current existence of the city which they once affectionately called home.
Filmaker's Bio:
Daniel E. Williams received his Bachelor of Arts in 1991 from Howard University and continued directly into the graduate film program where his mentor was internationally known filmmaker Haile Gerima. As a student, Williams was honored with a number of awards from such notable organizations as Eastman Kodak, Paramount Studios, and the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities. His short film Coffee (aka Woman and Man) received a Community Appreciation award from the National Black Programming Consortium and was named Best Experimental Short in 1998 from The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. In 2000, he won Best of Show at the Washington, DC Rosebud Film & Video Festival for his film A Thousand Days a Year, in which he also served as cinematographer. His films have screened at the Kennedy Center and the Hirshorn Museum in Washington, DC, the European Media Art Festival in Osnabruk, Germany, the International Student Film Festival in Tel Aviv, the St. Louis Filmmakers’ Showcase, Juneteenth Atlanta Film Showcase, the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival in San Francisco, the San Francisco Black Film Festival, and the Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago. An earlier version of Williams’ first feature, Cigarettes for Breakfast was an official selection of the 2008 American Black Film Festival and the 12th Annual Urban World Film Festival. In 2019, Williams was awarded a prestigious production grant from the Gene Siskel Film Center to produce the short film Play Day for the 25th anniversary of the Black Harvest Film Festival. In addition to making his own films and occasionally working as a cinematographer, Williams is also an Associate Professor of film at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. www.mindonfirefilms.com |