Lucky by Olu Gittens - TRAILER

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Oh Gee Productions
In "Lucky," by filmmaker Olu Gittens, the worlds of a zoot suit-wearing street hustler from 1940's Brooklyn and a "talented tenth" bourgeois family collide in this touching love story that spans three generations. The filmmaker brings us back to the 1940's, through music, stories and vintage black-and-white photographs taken sixty years earlier, in the same community. Audiences have left the film singing, crying - and wondering how they failed to predict the surprise knockout ending!

"Lucky" tells a jazzy, sentimental love story about an elderly man and woman who develop a friendship/romance, and discover a hidden past together. Set in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, this award-winning film stars renowned jazz vocalist Sir James Randolph and critically-acclaimed actress Gammy Singer. Shot on film and in full color, the film is a quality cinematic experience that is sure to delight.
Also featuring Kat Roberts, Anderson Jenkins, Sheba Riley, Jackie Alexander, Cassandra Fowlin.
Writer/Director/Producer Olufunmilayo Gittens, DP Yan Vizinberg, Editor Julie Yuen.
FILM FESTIVALS: African American Women in Cinema (WINNER), Worldfest Houston (WINNER), Rochester Int'l Short Film & Video (WINNER), Hollywood Black Film Festival, Creatively Speaking Harlem, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora, National Black Programming Consortium (WINNER), Roxbury Film Festival (WINNER), Watts Summer Film Festival, African Diaspora Film Festival, New England Film and Video Festival (WINNER), imageNation Film Festival (WINNER)
Pan African Film Festival.

Adt'l tags: Black filmmakers, Black women filmmakers, Lawrence Otis Graham, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Non Stop Production, Duke Ellington, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, swing dance, swing dancing, lindy hop, jitterbug, our kind of people, WW II, Henry Louis Gates, charlie bit me

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Olufunmilayo
• Gittens
• Sir
• James
• Randolph
• Gammy
• Singer
• jazz
• romance
• African
• American
• film
• talented
• tenth

[FUNKYBLOK]

this is an amazin' production...

[LINKLaV]

This clip is so cool. Great for Bedford-Stuyvesant. Great for jazz. Great for love. I loved the movie.