Hollywood Black Film Festival 2009

David, a very jealous and controlling man, is extremely annoyed that his secretary Denise is 4 minutes late for work. So he reams her out and demands that it never happens again.Robin, David's fiancé, arrives home 3 minutes late. David is disgusted at her lack of timeliness and gives her a tongue lashing. He gives her an ultimatum of getting married by his birthday or she must move out of his house.Struggling with her mixed feelings for David and his controlling ways, Robin is caught by David and her best friend Jill in a compromising physical situation with Jill's fiancé Isaac. Jill is in disbelief and throws her engagement ring at Isaac as she calls of the engagement. David loses his temper, gets physical with Robin and Isaac. In his fury, David calls off their wedding and later with premeditation kills Isaac.Rebounding quickly from the failed relationship with Robin, David takes Tina (his secretary's cousin) on his previously scheduled "honeymoon" and quickly begins a relationship with her.Robin shortly thereafter finds out that she is pregnant with David's child. But David will not have anything to do with her. He doesn't believe the child is his baby. Therefore Robin is forced to resort to DNA testing to establish paternity. But David has plans of his own to circumvent accurate results.Throughout the course of David and Tina's relationship, David's insecurities and jealous tendencies escalate to an uncontrollable level. Tina is forced to deal with David's violent physical outbursts toward her.Robin realizes that David has somehow influenced the paternity test. So she attempts to extract another sample of his DNA without his knowledge.During the pursuit of the true paternity results of Robin's child, David's DNA is simultaneously linked to Isaac's murder by the Crime Scene Investigators (CSI) network. In a final confrontation with David, Robin and Tina rise to the occasion to finally put David in his proper place as a man and as a father.Director David Matthews, an up-and-coming filmmaker and highly experienced writer, is on board to lend his skills and talents to this groundbreaking project. He has been involved in many successful projects over his wide-ranging career, which includes writing stints on "Cybil," "The Nanny," and "The Young and the Restless." He was also critical in the development of such hit TV shows as "Living Single" and "Mad About You," both of which he wrote the pilot episode for. Besides writing and directing, Matthews is also an EMMY™ award-winning composer and music coordinator who will be instrumental throughout the entire production process.L.A. veteran Kevin Scott, who has handled casting for such major TV shows as "The West Wing" and "ER," is working to put together a first rate cast of talented actors for our film. His talent for picking the right performer for each role has paid great dividends, resulting in 2 EMMY™ Awards for his efforts as a casting director. Several actors and actresses have signed on for this exciting project. The cast includes such familiar performers as Tempestt Bledsoe (Vanessa Huxtable on "The Cosby Show"); Essence Atkins (a regular on UPN's "Half and Half"); Lamman Rucker (Tyler Perry's "Meet the Browns"); Denise Boutte (Perry's "Why Did I Get Married?"); Toni Trucks (TV's "Barbershop"); Caryn Ward (TV's "The Game"); and Memphian Elise Neal ("Hustle & Flow," "The Hughleys").