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Nicole Franklin, writer/director of the her first narrative feature as writer/director, TITLE VII, and two of the stars of the film, Chicava HoneyChild and Maria Pusateri talk about TITLE VII.
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Nicole Franklin has spent a career in documentaries, shorts and theatre. Nicole is a filmmaker who explores African American subjects often not covered in cinema.
TITLE VII, is her first narrative feature as writer/director.
Nicole was sent the book Within The Walls by author Daisy M. Jenkins, and the story immediately brought flashbacks of my experience with same-race discrimination in the office. Although it is not quite taboo, there definitely may be some secrets exposed as co-screenwriter Craig T. Williams and Nicole present the story of a self-hating higher up who wreaks havoc when the mere presence of the new female hire commits the ultimate sin of reminding him of his color.
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Nicole Franklin is an award-winning filmmaker and now Executive Vice President of News at kweliTV, the interactive streaming platform and app that covers the global Black community. Through her 25 years in the industry she has been a television director, stage manager, editor, educator, public speaker, web event host and contributing writer to such publications as The Good Men Project, Toronto-based ByBlacks.com and NBCBLK. For sixteen years, her company EPIPHANY Inc. has been producing independent films for numerous cable networks including Showtime, BET, IFC, Nickelodeon, Sundance Channel, FUBUTV and kweliTV. In news she has worked on several Emmy Award-winning teams in stations from St. Louis to Los Angeles to New York City and on programs such as The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and morning television broadcasts on CBS News.
Nicole’s other credits include The Double Dutch Divas!, Journeys In Black: The Jamie Foxx Biography, Black Enterprise Business Report, and corporate videos. Educational films executive produced by her company EPIPHANY Inc. include Gershwin & Bess: A Dialogue with Anne Brown and the 10-chapter series Little Brother, both titles distributed by Third World Newsreel and currently airing on kweliTV. Little Brother is a recipient of the Foundation to Promote Open Society/Campaign for Black Male Achievement Award, fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas. Inspired by Gershwin & Bess…, Nicole has a screenplay in development titled BESS. TITLE VII is Nicole’s directorial debut of a narrative feature.
Project reels may be viewed at here.
Chicava HoneyChild is an actor, burlesque danseur, historian, teacher and producer. As an actor her credits include work with Spike Lee, David Wong, Joe Brewster and Robert Altman.
Her current projects are Sister Shake, a documentary and companion book on the legacy of Women of Color in burlesque heritage and Sacred Burlesque. She has lectured and/or performed on the university circuit at Yale College, Swarthmore, Sarah Lawrence College, and Wesleyan to name a few.
Chicava is the proprietress of New York City’s Brown Girls Burlesque and lead teacher of The Broad Squad Institute. She received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College her areas of interest being performance art, women of color in burlesque heritage, and sacred sexuality and spirituality.
Maria Pusateri has performed in theater, film and new media. Her passion for acting was ignited when she began studying at HB Studio, then later at Circle Repertory School of Theatre, she’s also worked on comedy improv at Magnet Theater. Her theater credits include Noises Off and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Maria is a member of the Northport Readers Theater and the Long Island Repertory Co. She recently starred in the short film Over Dinner, and will be in the upcoming web series This Is Why. Pusateri produced/directed the award-winning documentary Vito After: A 9/11 Responder Copes in the Aftermath, and has worked in various production capacities in both narrative and nonfiction film and TV, including as associate producer for the Oscar-nominated documentary short Mondays at Racine.
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