Filmmaker Jerry Lamothe (Blackout, Amour Infinity) has released his award winning short film The Tombs, online, for all to watch. This, in celebration of his birthday (which was actually yesterday). The writer/director also publicly expressed his interest in directing the long-in-development Tupac biopic, which Antoine Fuqua was previously attached to helm, but later stepped away from. "It's certainly something I would like to campaign and be considered for. I seldom (if ever) pursue work-for hire gigs, and frankly, rarely ever care to. But this project in particular, I've been following it for a long time. I definitely wouldn't mind being on their short list, and sharing...
- 10/18/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Jerry Lamothe has crafted a distinguished career as a filmmaker that can speak for the unspoken, most notably for the people 'around the way' like in his home neighborhood of Flatbush, Brooklyn, while still maintaining an entertaining and clear vision of how he sees the world. We caught up with him in advance of this Thursday's anniversary screening of his debut film Amour Infinity that takes place at New York's own Mist Harlem at 4pm and 8pm, to chat about what it took to make his first film and what keeps him going. For those perhaps more familiar with Lamothe's latest award-winning work The Tombs but not his earlier films, Amour Infinity (A Brooklyn Love Story)...
- 5/15/2013
- by Curtis Caesar John
- ShadowAndAct
Long before the success of the short film, The Tombs... Many years before the hit independent film Blackout which would boast an ensemble that included, Jeffrey Wright, Zoe Saldana, Melvin Van Peebles, Latanya Richardson-Jackson, Michael B. Jordan and a host of other NYC notables. And before Nora's Hair Salon... There was Amour Infinity. Jerry Lamothe's debut film, Amour Infinity (A Brooklyn Love Story) was shot in 2000. In the movie, the odds are stacked up against Derek, a young East Flatbush, Brooklyn man (Jerry Lamothe). He's lost his job and his girlfriend of five years and the mother of his child just left him as well. Seeing no end to his streak of bad...
- 5/9/2013
- by Curtis Caesar John
- ShadowAndAct
His short film, The Tombs, has been traveling the film festival circuit all year, and now award-winning director Jerry Lamothe is prepping to begin production on his next feature film, titled The Promise Keeper. Lamothe's last feature-length project was 2007's Brooklyn blackout-set drama titled Blackout, which starred Jeffrey Wright (also one of the film's producers), Zoe Saldana, Melvin Van Peebles, Michael B. Jordan, and others. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was very well received. He calls his next feature, The Promise Keeper, also set in Brooklyn (and Haiti, as well, post-earthquake), his "most...
- 5/31/2012
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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