White Woman

A Convenient Truth (2014)

Actors: Julie Chapin (actress), José Alvarez (actor), Elise Rovinsky (actress), Jillian Leigh (actress), Jason Boyle (actor), Charlie Pinto (editor), Charlie Pinto (producer), Patrick Steward (producer), Michael Anderson (actor), Guy Wellman (actor), Dominick Bagnato (writer), Dominick Bagnato (director), Joshua Ryan (actor), Alan Berman (actor), Gilli Messer (actress),

Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: Don't peddle for change. Pedal for change!

Requiem for the Dead Forest (2013)

Actors: Vidas Rasinskas (editor), Vidas Rasinskas (producer), Vidas Rasinskas (writer), Vidas Rasinskas (director), Rasa Noreikaite (editor), Rasa Noreikaite (producer), Cris Mitchell (composer), Keneesh-Brenda Pierre (actress), Dalia Klimaite-Stolpner (actress),

Plot: Requiem For The Dead Forest is a film-metaphor representing art-house auteur cinema. The film is about people becoming victims of their own actions, a sense of guilt, responsibility for each other and the environment surrounding them. The protagonists of the film are two women representing their own cultural origins in North American setting. By invoking a unique artistic language the story tells about their past, present and future. The American Indian Woman is seeking for the answers to her enduring and disturbing questions by following step-by-step the White Woman who does not understand the reason she is being chased ... until she discovers a new way of looking at things.

Genres: Drama, Short,

Underground (2011)

Actors: John Archer Lundgren (actor), Wayne DeBary (actor), Jim Ed Wills (actor), Scott Holstein (actor), Ken Wester (actor), Aaron Pagniano (miscellaneous crew), Stephen Griffin (editor), Ariya Watty (writer), Akil DuPont (composer), Akil DuPont (director), Akil DuPont (writer), Steve Aaron (actor), Allison Leger (producer), Patricia Joseph (actress), Heather Gillman (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: In a story told through song, Bali plans to escape from slavery after learning that his master is going to sell his young daughter, Emala. With house slave Dembi, they strike out in the dead of night, singing Negro spirituals that they hope will protect them on their perilous journey to freedom.

Genres: Drama, History, Musical, Short,
Taglines: Hear the sound of Freedom!

Goodnight for Justice (2011)

Actors: Jason Priestley (director), Graeme Coleman (composer), Luke Perry (producer), John Tench (actor), Jim Byrnes (actor), Winston Rekert (actor), Hrothgar Mathews (actor), Gabrielle Rose (actress), Adrian Hough (actor), Tom Butler (actor), Terence Kelly (actor), Ron Lea (actor), Luke Perry (actor), Lisa Rerrie (miscellaneous crew), Krista Johnston (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Western,

Quotes:

John Goodnight: It's just that the Wyoming territory is the most dangerous, lawless place in America!

Bartender: Lots of men come through here with limps, on account of the war... mostly.

Kate Ramsey: I thought you didn't take bribes.::John Goodnight: If it happens after the trial, it ain't no bribe!

Lumbini Park (2008)

Actors: Rachel Hroncich (actress), Valerie Adams (actor), Sequoyah Adams-Rice (actor), Shawna L. Begay (writer), Eve-Lauryn LaFountain (editor), Eve-Lauryn LaFountain (producer), Eve-Lauryn LaFountain (writer), Eve-Lauryn LaFountain (director), Lynette Haozous (actress), Carlos Peinado (writer), Stella Young (actress), Carlos J. Peinado (writer), Lynette Houzous (actress),

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Short,

Older Than America (2008)

Actors: Chris Mulkey (actor), Adam Beach (producer), Olenka Denysenko (miscellaneous crew), George S. Clinton (composer), Michael R. Miller (editor), Joel Thingvall (miscellaneous crew), Wes Studi (actor), Adam Beach (actor), Tantoo Cardinal (actress), Bradley Cooper (actor), Ryan Rapsys (actor), Tere Duncan (costume designer), Andrew Peterson (producer), Vinh Lu (miscellaneous crew), Cody Lightning (actor),

Plot: A woman's haunting visions reveal a Catholic priest's sinister plot to silence her mother from speaking the truth about the atrocities that took place at her Native American boarding school. A contemporary drama of suspense, Older Than America delves into the lasting impact of the cultural genocide and loss of identity that occurred at these institutions across the United States and Canada.

Keywords: boarding-school, country-name-in-title, priest, title-spoken-by-character
Genres: Drama,

Delirium (2003)

Actors: Flavio Sciolè (actor), Flavio Sciolè (writer), Flavio Sciolè (director), Marianna De Merolis (actress), Serena Marinelli (actress),

Plot: Delirium is the first movie of the "Delirium Cycle". One of the most popular movie by FS. Obsessions, delusions, hate, hopelessness, humiliation and death in an experimental film signed FS. Reviewed in the Italian journal's cult 'Nocturno'. The location (Torre di Cerrano, near Pescara, Italy) is the same of 'Nelle Pieghe Della Carne' (aka 'In the folds of the flesh', 1970) cult movie by Sergio Bergonzelli.

Keywords: b-movie, experimental, gothic, independent-film
Genres: Horror, Short,

Love in the Ruins (1995)

Actors: Scott Derrickson (editor), Scott Derrickson (director), Scott Derrickson (writer), Scott Derrickson (producer), Martin Morales (actor), Joe Camareno (actor), Eric Smith-Gunn (actor), Paul Harris Boardman (writer), Alix Hester (costume designer), Ellis Moore (actor), Michael Denney (actor), Michael Gonzales (producer), Dennis Lau (actor), Don Deforest Paul (actor), Welborn Ferrene (actor),

Genres: Short,

The Women of Brewster Place (1989)

Actors: Oprah Winfrey (producer), David Shire (composer), Jackée Harry (actress), Robin Givens (actress), Lynn Whitfield (actress), Oprah Winfrey (actress), Robin Givens (actress), Clark Johnson (actor), Phill Lewis (actor), Glenn Plummer (actor), Leon (actor), Paul Winfield (actor), Cicely Tyson (actress), Jerrold L. Ludwig (editor), Moses Gunn (actor),

Plot: Based on the novel by Gloria Naylor, which deals with several strong-willed women who live in a rundown housing project on Brewster Place in an unidentified eastern city; across three decades, they struggle against poverty, bigotry, and weak, troublesome men.

Keywords: 1960s, abuse, african-american, based-on-book, based-on-novel, black-american, block-party, closet-lesbian-relationship, compassion, ensemble
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Seven Women. Seven Lives Hanging in the Balance.

Quotes:

Etta Mae: [re babies] All yours. Built-in heartache for the next twenty years!::Mattie Michael: [reprovingly] Etta...::Etta Mae: Now me, when I want ready-made trouble, I dig up a handsome man. No diapers to change, and I walk when I'm ready.

Mattie Michael: [referring to Etta's Mae's flirtation with Reverend Woods] If you had batted your eyelashes any faster, we'd have had a dust storm up in there.::Etta Mae: You said you wanted me to meet some nice men. Well, I met one.::Mattie Michael: Etta, I meant a man who'd be serious about settling down with you. Why, you're going on like a schoolgirl. Can't you see what he's got in mind?::Etta Mae: [in a cold yet angry tone] The only thing I see is that you're telling me I'm not good enough for a man like that. Oh, no, not Etta Johnson. No upstanding decent man could ever see anything in her but a quick good time. Well, I'll tell you something Mattie Michael. I've always traveled first class, maybe not in the way you'd approve of with all your fine Christian principles, but it's done all right by me. And I'm gonna keep top drawer till I leave this earth. Don't you think I got a mirror? Each year there's a new line to cover. I lay down with this body and get up with it every morning. And each morning it cries for just a little more rest than it did the day before. Well, I'm finally gonna get that rest and it's going to be with a man like Reverend Woods. And you and the rest of those slack-mouthed gossips be damned! They'll be humming a different tune when I show up there the wife of a big preacher. I've always known what they say about me behind my back, but I never thought you were right in there with them.

Mattie Michael: [Etta Mae flirtatiously accepts an invitation to dance] Woman, you better stay here and act your age.::Etta Mae: Ooh, I'm acting it. 35!::Mattie Michael: Hm! You've got regrets older than that.

Mattie Michael: Ciel, I promise you, if you leave this world, it'll be over my dead body!

Mattie Michael: Ain't that the story. Colored folks try to do a little something, somebody come along and throw up a wall.::Kiswana: Well, why don't you do something about it?::Mattie Michael: What I'm supposed to do? I could tear down this wall with my bare hands; they'd just send somebody in the next day to put it up again.::Kiswana: But at least you would have done something!::Mattie Michael: Ain't no use. You're young. You'll see what I mean.::Kiswana: No, I won't. That's the difference between you and me.

Ciel: [while sobbing intensely] I ain't got nothing to live for, Mattie!::Mattie Michael: [wraps arms around Ciel] That ain't true, baby. You got youself. You got yourself.

Theresa: Lorraine, you're a lesbian. Do you understand that word? A butch, a dyke, a lesbo, all those things that kid was shouting. Yes, I heard him! And you can run in all the basements in the world, and it won't change that, so why don't you accept it?::Lorraine: [angrily] I have accepted it! I've accepted it all my life, and it's nothing I'm ashamed of. I lost a father because I refused to be ashamed of it, but it doesn't make me different from anyone else in the world!::Theresa: It makes you damned different!::Lorraine: [jerking open bottom drawer of her dresser and pulling out her underwear] Do you see this? There are two things that have been constant in my life since I was sixteen years old: beige bras and oatmeal. The day before I first fell in love with a woman, I got up, had oatmeal for breakfast, and put on a beige bra. I was no different the day before or after that happened, Tee.::Theresa: And what did you do when you went to school that next day, Lorraine? Did you stand around the gym locker and swap stories with the other girls about this new love in your life, huh? While they were bragging about their boyfriends and the fifty dozen ways they had lost their virginity, did you jump in and say, 'Oh, but you should have seen the one I gave it up to last night?' Huh? Did you? Did you?::[grabbing Lorraine's underwear]::Theresa: You with your beige bras and oatmeal! Why didn't you stand in that locker room and pass around a picture of this great love in your life?::Lorraine: [quietly] Because they wouldn't have understood.::Theresa: That's right! There go your precious 'theys' again. They wouldn't undertand, not in Detroit, not on Brewster Place, not anywhere! And as long as they own the whole damn world, it's them and us, Sister! Them and us. And that spells different!

Fannie Michael: [having grabbed a shotgun after witnessing her husband beat Mattie] So help me Jesus, Sam! Hit my child again, and I'll meet you soul in hell!

Kiswana: Melanie, what help are you going to be to these people on Brewster while you're living hand-to-mouth on file-clerk jobs waiting for a revolution? You're wasting your talents, child.::Mrs. Browne: Well, I don't think they're being wasted. At least I'm here in day-to-day contact with my people. What good would I be after four or five years of a lot of white brainwashing in some phony, prestige institution, huh? I'd be like you and Daddy and those other educated blacks sitting over there in Linden Hills with a terminal case of middle-class amnesia.::Mrs. Browne: You don't have to live in a slum to be concerned about social conditions, Melanie. Your father and I have been charter members of the NAACP for the last twenty-five years.::Kiswana: [rolling her eyes] Oh, God! THAT'S being concerned? That middle-of-the-road, Uncle Tom dumping ground for Black Republicans!::Mrs. Browne: You can sneer all you want, young lady, but that organization has been working for black people since the turn of the century, and it's still working for them. Where are all those radical groups of yours that were going to put a Cadillac in every garage and Dick Gregory in the White House? I'll tell you where. They burned themselves out because they wanted too much too fast. Their goals weren't grounded in reality. And that's always been your problem.::Kiswana: What do you mean, my problem? I know exactly what I'm about.::Mrs. Browne: No, you don't. You constantly live in a fantasy world, always going to extremes, turning butterflies into eagles, and life isn't about that. It's accepting what is and working from that. Lord, I remember how worried you had me, putting all that lacquered hair spray on your head. I thought you were going to get lung cancer, trying to be what you're not.::Kiswana: [in a frustrated tone] Oh, God, I can't take this anymore. Trying to be something I'm not, trying to be something I'm not, Mama? Trying to be proud of my heritage and the fact that I was of African descent. If that's being what I'm not then I say fine. But I'd rather be dead than be like you: a white man nigger who's ashamed of being black!::Mrs. Browne: [grabs Kiswana and stares into her eyes, speaking fiercely] My grandmother was a full-blooded Iroquois, and my grandfather a free black from a long line of journeymen who had lived in Connecticut since the establishment of the colonies. And my father was a Bajan who came to this country as a cabin boy on a merchant mariner.::Kiswana: [quietly] I know all that.::Mrs. Browne: [squeezing Kiswana even tighter] Then, know this. I am alive because of the blood of proud people who never scraped or begged or apologized for what they were. They lived asking for only one thing of this world: to be allowed to be. And I learned through the blood of these people that black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly; black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair; it just is. It broke my heart when you changed your name. I gave you my grandmother name, a woman who bore nine children and educated them all, who held off six white men with a shotgun when they tried to drag one of her sons to jail for 'not knowing his place.' Yet you needed to reach into an African dictionary to make you proud. When I brought my babies home from the hospital, my ebony son and my golden daughter, I swore before whatever gods would listen, those of my mother's people or those of my father's people, that I would use everything I had and could ever get to see that my children were prepared to meet this world on its own terms, so that on one could sell them short and make them ashamed of what they were or how they looked, whatever they were or however they looked. And Melanie, that's not being white or red or black. That's being a mother.

Kiswana: [while examining one of Cora Lee's children, who has just injured himself] There's a big knot coming up on the side of his head; maybe we should take him...::Cora Lee: It'll go down. [after seeing the expression on Kiswana's face] Look, if I ran to the hospital every time one of these kids bumps their heads or scrapes their knee, I'd spend the rest of my life in those emergency rooms.

Maniac Cop (1988)

Actors: Patrick Wright (actor), William Smith (actor), Richard Roundtree (actor), Leo Rossi (actor), Frank Pesce (actor), Jefferson Richard (actor), Ken Lerner (actor), William Lustig (actor), George 'Buck' Flower (actor), Bruce Campbell (actor), John F. Goff (actor), Tom Atkins (actor), Sam Raimi (actor), Sheree North (actress), Robert Z'Dar (actor),

Plot: Innocent people are being brutally murdered on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. As the death toll rises and City Hall attempts a cover-up, Frank McCrae heads the investigation. A young cop, Jack Forrest, finds himself under arrest as the chief suspect, having been the victim of a set-up by the real killer and a mysterious woman phone-caller. Forrest, his girlfriend Theresa, and McCrae set out to solve the puzzle before the Maniac Cop can strike again.

Keywords: 1980s, adultery, back-from-the-dead, camera-shot-of-feet, crippled, cult-film, disfigured-face, false-accusation, female-stockinged-feet, female-stockinged-legs
Genres: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller,
Taglines: You have the right to remain silent. Forever. Sometimes help can be dangerous. He Prefers To Kill, Instead Of Protect

Quotes:

Frank McCrae: Look at the size of those hematomas!

Jack Forrest: You're the one that dropped out of therapy!

Sally Noland: He knows! He knows! He knows I'm no good to him!

Bar Patron: Are you sure I can't give you a lift?::Cassie Phillips: I'd rather face the muggers.

Frank McCrae: Gina this isn't about romance. It's about murder.

Security Guard: You always take a leak with a gun in your hand? That's a good way to blow your balls off!

Coroner: We have a C2/C3 fracture dislocation. The head was unstable and there was a sudden deceleration injury. The residual hanging; where the head just "pops". That's not what's interesting. What's interesting is we have a crushed larynx. The head's just flopping.::Frank McCrae: You're tryin' to tell me two kids did this?

Commissioner Pike: Lieutenant, I've been going over your report. Seems you automatically assume it was a police officer instead of some lunatic son-of-a-bitch dressed up like a cop.

Frank McCrae: He'll kill again... he enjoys killing.

Commissioner Pike: Tell me something, when was the last time YOU had a mental test?::Frank McCrae: ...anytime, Commissioner.::Commissioner Pike: As a matter of fact, didn't you try to shoot yourself a couple of years back?::Frank McCrae: ...gun went off.