Hollywood Black Film Festival 2008

A veteran homicide detective plays a game of cat and mouse with a confessed serial killer and pedophile during an interrogation with tragic results.

Aaron and his ambitious actress girlfriend, Kenya, have run into some hard times. After moving to L.A. from Atlanta with Kenya, Aaron has had a rough go of in finding work and as a result their relationship has suffered. To top if off, he's suspicious of Kenya's 'networking' and she's more interested in him just getting off of the couch than elaborating on where she was the night before.However, Aaron's time isn't entire spent on the couch while Kenya works during the day. He's found an outlet in a sardonic if not especially passionate affair with the manager of the Vista/View apartment building, Wanda. It is also a diversion for Wanda whose obsessing about the whereabouts of building maintenance man, Gustavo, and spurning the advances of the lonesome Simon are just about all that she has to look forward to during the day.Perturbed by their May/December interracial affair is Snyder, the building's resident curmudgeon. Snyder's actions precipitate the figurative earthquake that Aaron hopes will just 'shake things up and get him out of the rut his life has fallen into'.

Walking Tall: The Life and Wife of Walt Walker, artist, businessman and entrepreneur. The late Walt Walker, who passed away five years ago at 84, created the most extensive collection of paintings, murals, drawings, sketches and graphic arts and holds the distinction of being one of the first African Americans to to open an art gallery featuring black images in Los Angeles. This documentary will inspire artists to first learn the art of business, then the business of art to steer clear of a life of the starving artist. Walking Tall exhibits the most comprehensive body of Walt's popular work as well as little shown works including his sketches and murals.By Walt's own admission, were it not for the efforts of his business-minded wife, Jane Walker, and their 62 year marriage, we may never have known his name. In addition to his wife, Jane, interviews include Charles Bibbs, renowned artist and owner of the 626 Gallery, Cecil and Miriam Fergerson, art curators, Ayuko Babu, Pan African Film Festival co-founder and Walker's eldest son Russell. He pioneered the black arts movement by opening the LeJan Gallery in the early 1960's and later was known for exhibiting his own art at Ray's Redwood Kitchen on Western Avenue in Los Angeles for 10 years. After exhibiting at community art shows and outdoor festivals, Jane insisted that they invest in prints so that 'the mother in Watts could buy some art for her apartment.' Now, many people own a Walt Walker original.

The short documentary film, 'What A Difference A Day Makes' follows the sojourn of a Haitian-American family living the American Dream in a post-9/11 New York City.

Everyday seven-year old Kylie rushes into her grandparents' backyard to her beloved Poppop. As their relationship grows, she becomes increasingly distant from the rest of her family. Through a touching example of love and faith, Kylie and her family learn the transcendence of family ties and spiritual bonds.

Shots ring out one winter night and a bullet meant for a local street dealer kills a ten-year-old boy.In the downtown Toronto community of Parkdale, grief and suspicion hang heavily in the air, while the nightly patrons at Miss G's Caribbean TakeAway resume their ritual of beer and banter.But one of them, Gene Wright, cannot go on. He begs his friends for help. In a most unusual development, six Black men make a pact to form a support group in hopes of salvaging their broken spirits and redeeming their besieged community.A Winter Tale is set against the backdrop of a multicultural community's unrealized hopes and dreams. Bitter and tragic, funny and hopeful, the film tells a uniquely Canadian story that features Toronto as a central character.

The rhythmic clink and clatter of household chores. The smack and rattle of the ironing board causes mild-mannered housewife Janet Sancy to catch her iron before it hits the floor. She yells at her son for knocking the ironing board, but realizes she?s holding the hot end. Dropping it, she sees it did not burn her hand but is now destroying the sweater she was ironing!Later, Janet is informed by The Hall of Super Justice that due to her ?heightened adrenaline? she could possibly be a superhero. At first dubious, Janet realizes she could be more than just ?mom.? This news is not greeted with the same enthusiasm by her husband, Mick. Angered by his attitude, Janet sizzles `till POOF - she stands in her uniform: golden tiara, a red bodice with yellow flames, white spandex and a long yellow cape. She is Lady Adrenaline.Out to fight crime only finds Lady Adrenaline doing menial tasks: making thugs pick up trash, stopping kids from spray-painting graffiti. There?s nothing glorious about it and she?s still got to pick up her son from school!Back at home, Janet still has trouble getting Mick to take her seriously. All he sees is the sexy spandex. ?It?s not lingerie, it?s my uniform!?Can Janet make everyone understand ?there?s more to this than the way it looks?? Can Lady Adrenaline achieve real superhero status? Woman?s Work shows her juggling both jobs and fighting for respect from both.