DIRECTOR TO OFFER SNEAK PREVIEW OF FILM-FESTIVAL FAVORITE

A sneak preview of Brother to Brother will bring filmmaker Rodney Evans to campus on Thursday, Oct. 28, to screen and discuss his award-winning feature before it opens in theaters nationwide. The event, co-sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture and the English Department, will take place at 5 p.m. in Thomas 110 and is free and open to all.

Brother to Brother stars Anthony Mackie (8 Mile, The Manchurian Candidate, She Hate Me) as Perry Williams, a young African-American poet who struggles to come to terms with a gay identity after he is rejected by his family. He meets an elderly poet, Bruce Nugent (played by Roger Robinson), who shares his memories of the glory days of the Harlem Renaissance and introduces the younger man to the hidden gay and lesbian subcultures of that milieu. The film moves between contemporary and historic Harlem, interweaving Perry's struggles to forge an artistic and sexual identity with Nugent's earlier, similar struggles alongside such Harlem Renaissance luminaries as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.

Brother to Brother won a special jury award at the Sundance Film Festival and has swept top honors at gay-and-lesbian film festivals nationwide. Variety praises it for the "depth and intelligence it brings to issues of black politics and sexuality."

Evans, a graduate of Brown University and the California Institute of the Arts, also wrote and co-produced Brother to Brother, whose screenplay won the Independent Feature Project's Gordon Parks Award for Screenwriting.

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