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Malika Yoba's Whereabouts
Phoenix, AZ - What seems to be a throw back to the Twilight Zone is actually a stirring piece of cinema that has recently won BEST SHORT FILM at the 2003 Phoenix Film Festival.
Directed by up and comer Joe Eckardt, this film challenges you to reassess where we are today in regards to race. Malik Yoba stars in the 17 minute film and delivers a powerful performance as a black man lost in a white man's world.
Yoba, made famous in the series television series New York Undercover, plays an independent black man who finds himself lost. What he finds is a pocket of life stuck in another era, where prejudice and intolerance are accepted. Ultimately, he must try to escape without losing his life.
As the story unfolds, so do our ideas about how far we have really come since the civil rights era. Eckardt, being Colombian, knew that he wanted to tell a story that could transcend races and gender, which is what he did.
The film played to a packed audience who hopefully took home their own interpretation of DREAMING IN BLACK AND WHITE.
Currently the film can be seen at the upcoming SAN FRANCISCO BLACK FILM FESTIVAL and will screen in HOLLYWOOD in July at HYPEFEST.
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I am a woman, I make mistakes. I make them often. God has given me a talent and that's it. ~ Jill Scott
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