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About That Popular 'Black Films Don't Sell ...Watch New 10-Minute Preview Clip Of Kobie Brown's Acclaimed Doc 'From Fatherless To Fatherhood'
One of several highlights from the 2012 New Voices In Black Cinema Festival earlier this year at BAMCinematek in Brooklyn, NY... titled From Fatherless To Fatherhood (which should immediately clue you into what the film's focus is), and directed by Kobie Brown.
The 75 min topical documentary film explores the causes, effects and possible solutions on the absence of fathers in households.
Within the film are several interviews as well as narratives of those whose fathers - whether absent or present - have impacted them in some significant way. The film also recognizes those men who, raised without fathers, are present in their own children's lives, thus breaking the pathological cycle once experienced by these very same men.
I spoke with director Kobie Brown about the film - an interview which is embedded in the video below. In it, he talks in depth about his motivations for making the film and what audiences can expect to get from the experience of watching it.
But before that, you'll find a newly-released 10-minute preview of the film, which is touring the film festival and film screening series circuit currently:
1 Comment
Adam Scott Thompson | July 12, 2012 7:54 PM
Ready for this. A lot of my work deals with relationships between fathers and sons (or lack thereof). My father gets on my nerves now and again and we've argued quite a few times as grown men, but... I wouldn't give him up for all the tea in China. Man worked two jobs when I was a toddler, not because he needed to but because he wanted to. He made me put a belt on, no matter what. He gave me "the Trayvon talk." He kept me forever in hair cuts and decent suits. He paid for private school. He paid for college, and a new car. And he still helps me out. Both my parents worked hard -- I had Cliff and Clair at home -- but I truly believe that without my father I wouldn't be what I am to day (and I'm thankful). His father left when he was very young and I believe that damaged him -- and drove him. It impacted me immediately when one of the men in the preview spoke on it: my father had a blank slate on fatherhood. That helps me to understand a lot of his flaws as a father which I'd chosen to dwell on in my youth rather than appreciating the ways in which he provided an environment where I could believe anything was possible for me. [Side note: My father's birthday is August 4th... same day as my President's.]