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| Film gallery |
| WHEN THEY COULD FLY |
| 2006, 28 min. |
| Best Production Design Award at the Cityvisions, New York 2006 Best Short Film and Best Over All Film Award at the Texas Black Film Festival, 2007 Best Drama Award at the 2007 Buffalo Niagara Film Festival in Buffalo NY |
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| CAST |
| Bella | FOLAKE OLOWOFOYEKU | |
| Samuel Freeman | ROBERT JOHNSON | |
| Mean Overseer | ANDY LOCKLAIR | |
| Augustine LIVINGSTON THOMAS | ||
| Mae | SHELBY HENDERSON |
| STORY | |
| This poetic film is a cinematic adaptation of a magical folktale, which uses the period of American slavery as a stage to show how people can survive and overcome the most extreme experiences by the power of their own will. In the film, a group of slaves on a South Carolina cotton plantation learn that people in Africa practice magic, and have developed the ability to fly. This idea of transcendence is a necessity for human existence in times when there is nothing else to believe in. Here, our protagonist holds on to this magical belief, and it changes the group’s shackled lives. | |
| The 13th Annual Polish Film Festival |
| October 9 - 18. 2012 |
| SOCIAL NETWORKS |
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