Passion To Action
Two three-hour workshop/lecture classes each led by industry veterans Winsome Sinclair and Thembisa S. Mshaka, featuring special invited entertainment professionals. Don’t pass up this career-changing opportunity where you will spend a full day learning about career choices and how to maximize opportunities both in front and behind the camera from two Top Hollywood authorities working in the business today. Take a big step forward to a career you love. Bring your passion to this amazing day of inside information. Winsome and Thembisa will show you ways to bypass the misconceptions about the business and put your passion into action.
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For Faith, For Love, Forever
Directed by Nefertiti Strong
Executive Produced by Rev. Roland Stringfellow & The Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies in Religion & Ministry
Update (June 30, 2010)
For more information about the feature-length documentary, please visit:
http://www.forfaithforloveforeverthemovie.com
Synopsis
This documentary takes a look at Proposition 8, a ballot measure that recently passed in California to legally discriminate against lesbian and gay couples to prevent them from marrying. Sponsored by the Pacific School of Religion's (PSR) Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion & Ministry (CLGS), this documentary focuses specifically on the meaning of gay marriage in the black church.
Status
Film is currently in post-production and being submitted to film festivals for distribution.
Take A Leap of Faith
Directed by Nefertiti Strong
Produced by Nu-Lite Entertainment
Update (January 8, 2009)
Purchase Take a Leap of Faith at Barnes and Nobles.
Synopsis
Rose Montgomery (Yvette Saunders) is a successful interior designer with her best friend and business partner, Winston (Mike Gamble). Rose just doesn't know what she wants in a man. Unsure of herself, Rose begins a journey in search of her perfect man, only to find that by believing in God, and taking a leap of faith, will lead to her perfect mate.
Coming Soon on DVD! Visit Black Christian Movies for more information.
Crenshaw Blvd.
Directed by Nefertiti Strong
Executive Produced by Patriot Pictures
Synopsis
CRENSHAW BLVD. is a film about Emilio Juarez, a handsome young man whose love of classic cars gets him involved in the Crenshaw low riding scene that is full of danger, beautiful women, hot cars, blaring hip music and stop the yard low-rider action. CRENSHAW BLVD. is a fast-action lowrider movie that depicts a modern-day conflict of morality reminiscent of the films “To Kill a Mockingbird” and "City of God." It is a watch-your-back, hit-the-switches-on-your-lowrider, hold-your-girl-tight, don’t-betray-your-friend film about defending a person’s right to another chance.
Please see more about this film at Patriot Pictures.
A Race to Win: The Marc Davis Story
Directed by Nefertiti Strong
Produced by Patriot Pictures & Catch A Dream Entertainment, Inc.
Synopsis
This coming of age story is about Marc Davis, the youngest African American NASCAR driver, desiring to become a legend in a sport that is not basketball. We literally take the fast track into the explorations of disproportionate black racers among NASCAR's racing world. With a shiny spotlight on Joe Gibbs, the coach of the Washington Redskins and owner of the Joe Gibbs Racing Team, our story incorporates Joe's awesome career as a head coach and trailblazer.
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Fast Forward Girlz
Written & Directed by Nefertiti Strong
Synopsis
Natasha and Britney are 14-year old girls just trying to get by living in the ghetto of St. Louis. While Britney's highest hope is becoming a video vixen, Natasha dreams of becoming a rapper. The school counselor, Ms. Longley, tries to open the eyes of the girls and let them know that there is more to life than the sad legacies left by their mothers.
Ellos y Nosotros
Written by Juan Fernandez & Paula Killen
Executive Produced by Monos En La Montana
Produced by Juan Fernandez and Nefertiti Strong
Synopsis
A wealthy group of close friends, The Circle Foundation, choose to endorse a risky charitable cause, Animal Rights and the world around them ignites into a three-ring circus. As the story begins, Jesus Montenegro and his protege Lorena the organizer of the group is suffering from mid-life ennui, but the somewhat negative reaction to his charity de jour reinvigorates his passion and draws support from unlikely sources. When MarisolGarcia, a young girl, with a bold affinity for the cause finds her way into their inner circle, Jesus’ protégé Leonardo falls in love her thus disrupting the delicate balance of power within the group. The complications between these human beings and dilemma of Animal Rights create the fodder for drama, comedy and everything in between.
The scene is set today – Latin America, one of the largest consumers of animal products in the world. The tone is elegant, fast and picturesque; the style comic/realism.
Please see more about this film at the Monos En La Montana website by clicking on Projects.
The Last Track
A Juan Basanta Film
Written & Directed by Juan Basanta
Executive Produced by Monos En La Montana
Produced by Nefertiti Strong
"Destiny is the one you get, not the one you dream of." - Raulito
Synopsis
The Last Track is a faced-paced journey through the streets of Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico which culminates in the intoxicating life of the music industry, love, drugs and gang rivalry.
Roman Ayala dreams of becoming a musician. His family, however, is in Cuba – where dreams don’t become reality. Instead, he works at one of La Habana’s most prestigious hotels, cleaning other people’s sins.
One day, Roman comes across diamonds and a lot of cash hidden in the bathroom. He hides this treasure for four long years. But after one fateful call from his sister in Miami, having escaped Cuba, he is lead into a game of facades. He must discern fact from fiction – reality from the lies.
Please see more about this film at the Monos En La Montana website by clicking on Projects.
Constellation
Directed by Jordan Walker-Pearlman
Foreign Sales Agent: Catch A Dream Entertainment, Inc.
Synopsis
Film stars Gabrielle Union, Billy Dee Williams, Hill Harper, Zoe Saldana, Melissa de Sousa, and Lesley Ann Warren. Returning to the Deep South to a town that once held back their opportunities but now glistens as a modern, sexy city, the Boxer family and its extended members discover in the memory of a loved one what binds them together.
When the beloved Carmel Boxer passes away, her entire family returns to Huntsville, Alabama to celebrate her life and legacy. As the Boxer family comes together for the first time in many years, revelations of Carmel's painful past begin to force each person to address their pent up emotions and true feelings for one another. The story chronicles the lives and loves of this African-American family as its members are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family patriarch, Helm Boxer, must confront his demons amidst the changing racial fabric of society and his own family.
Status
Film released on February 2, 2008
Available in video stores and on Netflix
To view this film in your country, please contact Nefertiti Strong at movingchi@gmail.com