White Boy Brown is a deeply dramatic, story about a young African American man who, over the course of a day, rediscovers a love for his adopted white brother JOHNNY. He is basically reminded of this love that he once shared with his brother while delivering a very important letter to the biological father of Johnny.
(Sean)
Yes the story very much so deals with race and race relations, every part of it, the negative and positive aspects.
Honestly when I first started writing White Boy Brown I had never heard of this happening before so just to make sure I searched the internet and low and behold these type of families existed. One such family lived out in Baltimore Maryland. I later contacted the father and told him about the film. I and sent him a link to the trailer and he was floored at the similarities. One example was in the opening shot of the trailer the mother, Wilhelmina Brown played by Betty Entzminger, is sitting on a park bench with young Johnny, played by Jack Lussier, and a woman makes a comment about how well Wilhemena was taking care of Johnnys injury to his knee and asked her what agency she worked for, assuming Mrs. Brown was the nanny. But when Mrs. Brown corrected the woman saying No this is my son the woman was embarrassed and speechless. The real life father from Baltimore expressed that this happens frequently. After hearing this I knew I was on the right track. He and his family are my heroes.
(Sean)
No, not at all. I believe as long as there are differences in our culture there will always be negative and positive issues we have to deal with. Its not a bad thing for these issues to be exposed, through whatever avenue, film television, music, this will only lead to healing and reconciliation. (Sean)
Sort of indirectly. While sitting in a local park in the fall of 2008 I noticed an African American girl, no older than three or four years old playing with a woman who appeared to be her mother. I was drawn to their relationship in particular because of the apparent ethnic differences between the two, the woman was Caucasian. I watched them for awhile and I was amazed at the interactions between the two. The trust the girl had towards the woman was infectious. I began thinking of a story of an adopted child in a family of a different ethnic background. But Ive seen many films and T.V shows where there was an African American child in a white family, but what I havent seen was the opposite, a white child in a black family.
(Sean)
Well we are looking at a few pretty good festivals here in the U.S, of course looking for distribution if the right deal comes along, but were exploring other avenues of distribution that might prove to be a better fit for this type of film. Definitely look for it in 2010.
(Sean)
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