Press Release

Contact: 
Narcel G. Reedus
214-333-2530                                              
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Award-winning Short Film Screens in Fort Worth

January 24, 2005 - (Fort Worth)  The award-winning short film For
Colored Boys Who've Considered Homicide will screen at the Historic Rose
Marine Theater located at 1440 North Main Street in Fort Worth, Texas on
Friday, February 25th at 7:30PM.

For Colored Boys Who've Considered Homicide is the intense super-natural
drama about an ancestor who travels through time to interrogate a young
black man who committed murder.  The short film won Best Drama at the
1994 National Black Program Consortium's Prized Pieces, Best of Show at
the Central Florida Film Festival, and Best Short at the 2003 Urban
Literary Film Festival.  St. Petersburg Times film critic Steve Persall
wrote, For Colored Boys... left me stunned into an admiring silence like
no other since Schindler's List." 
The screening at the Historic Rose Marine Theater will include his
experimental short film Ezekiel's Dream - a psychedelic prayer based on
Psalms 69 and the circumstance, consequence, and poetic beauty of being
a black man in America.  Also screening is the rites-of-passage
documentary Call To Manhood - where black men in Atlanta, Georgia come
back into the community to save young African American boys.  

The films' writer/director, 41 year-old Narcel G. Reedus, a first year
film professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, is pleased to
make his introduction to the Dallas/Forth Worth community. "I look
forward to getting more involved in the (local) film community," says
Reedus who recently was nominated for a Rockefeller Fellowship.  If
selected he plans to use the fellowship to help finance a feature film
project that he will produce and direct in the DFW area. 

Reedus earned an M.F.A. in Film and Media Arts from Temple University in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A native of Gary, Indiana, Narcel spent many
years in Atlanta as an independent filmmaker prior to pursuing his
M.F.A.   He has been an adjunct professor at Clark Atlanta University
and a youth media teacher at both IMAGE Film & Video Center (Atlanta)
and with Kent State University's Upward Bound program.  Narcel has also
taught at the renowned Maine Photographic Workshops in Rockport, Maine.

His other films include In Between, memory: phase 1 and Race Juice: An
Elixir for the Soul.  All of his films are available on DVD. Admission
is $10.00 for adults and $5 for students accompanied with a adult.
Caution: Some films contain strong language. For more information call:
214-333-2530.
	
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