Hollywood Black Film Festival 2008

Curtain Call follows Isaiah, an African-American artist, as he reaches for his dreams amidst the negative images and opinions about African-Americans held by the outside world. Using Shakespeare's famous 'To be or not to be' soliloquy as the spine, the film reveals how Isaiah, like Hamlet, decides between three options to overcome the obstacles in his path. Does he accept them, fight them or escape them through suicide? In the end, Isaiah realizes that he must commit a metaphorical suicide that of his ego which relies on others for love and acceptance in order to gain all of his desires.