Mass Ave | African American Shorts Series 1 (105m)

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African American Shorts Series 1 (105m) contains the following films:

1) Mass Ave (21m)

2) Red Bird (14m)

3) Lead (25m)

4) Lotus (25m)

5) Boost (20m)

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Over a day of landscaping work, a first generation African American and his immigrant father have their tense relationship and different outlooks on life transformed irreversibly when they are racially profiled by police.

Year
2021
Runtime
21 minutes
Language
English
Country
United States

Director
Omar Kamara
Screenwriter
Omar Kamara, Jalmer Caceres
Producer
Guo Guo
Cast
Omete Anassi, Benjamin A. Onyango
Cinematographer
Jonas Fischer
Editor
Lily Judge
Production Design
Shi Min Yong
Sound Design
Veronica Li
Music
Justin Schornstein

4 films in package

Mass Ave

Over a day of landscaping work, a first generation Sierra Leonean American and his immigrant father have their tense relationship and different outlooks on life transformed irreversibly when they are racially profiled by police.

Redbird

Leon Dart, an emerging young African American rodeo rider living in a small town in Oklahoma, must choose between his personal life or chasing after his dream of becoming a full time rider.

Lead

An Afro-Latina actress finds it hard to land a role as a result of her ethnically ambiguous appearance. Still, she works at not only landing a role, but the lead role in a Shakespeare play.

Lotus

Dreams ain’t free, choices are.