"BEING BLACK ENOUGH OR (HOW TO KILL A BLACK MAN)" Premieres at Dances With Films June 10th

Devin Rice's Being Black Enough Premieres at Dances With Films
World Premiere at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres June 10th
   
Los Angeles, CA - Devin Rice Studios is honored to announce the World Premiere of Devin Rice's Being Black Enough or (How to Kill a Black Man) at the 20th Dances With Films Festival.  Based on writer-director-star Devin Rice's youth in Los Angeles, the semi-autobiographical drama touches on what it means to "be Black", how race is seen through the eyes of different people and groups and the consequences of these perspectives.  Being Black Enough will premiere at Dances With Films at the TCL Chinese 6 Theaters June 10th.

On the genesis of his directorial debut, Rice said, "Being Black Enough is a very personal film, laced with my own life experience. All throughout my childhood, even up to today, I was made fun of for not being 'Black Enough'. This, based on the clothes I've worn, the way I speak, my interests in life. Not just from White or Black people, but from people from all walks of life. Everyone seems to have this idea of what it means to be 'Black'. This unspoken thing that's understood all throughout America. It's like self-perpetuating slavery without chains."

 

Rice felt the need to make this project after he saw the increasing news coverage of Black men being shot by the police. "It made me frustrated and very angry...What if that was me who got shot by the police?" Shortly after Rice wrote the script and he and his producing partner Jacqueline Corcos crowdfunded the film. They ended up making it for a meager budget and wore nearly all the filmmaking hats themselves, inspired by films like El Mariachi and Clerks.

Tickets:  https://danceswithfilms.com/being-black-enough/

Dances With Films:
Saturday, June 10, 2017
TCL Chinese 6
7:15 pm
6801 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood, CA 90028

A young Black man, raised in a predominantly white neighborhood and ridiculed for not being "Black enough", decides to go to the hood to hang out with his gangster cousin and discover what it really means to be "Black." He eventually faces the harsh realities of gang violence, drugs and police confrontation.

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