Buck

[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/396036608″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]Caught in the throes of a depressive fugue, young Lynn resorts to debauchery to find joy — only to discover that happiness is a much more complicated proposition.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10″][vc_column_text]Directors: Jovan James and Elegance Bratton[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Runtime: 14 Mins[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Year: 2020[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20″][vc_column_text]Friday, November 13, 2020. 10:00pm[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20″][edgtf_button size=”huge-full-width” type=”” enable_prettyphoto=”” target=”_self” icon_pack=”” font_weight=”” text=”Tickets” link=”https://theatricalathome.com/products/centrefilmfestival”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”10″][edgtf_separator type=”full-width”][vc_empty_space height=”10″][vc_column_text]

About The Directors

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Jovan James

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Jovan James is a filmmaker and photographer from Baltimore dedicated to showing the black experience with compassion and unflinching honesty. Starting from a young age with an interest in medicine and science, he independently discovered his love for film as a teenager. Jovan earned his BFA at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He started at NYU Tisch Grad Film in 2014 where he made his first short film, “The Jump Off”, that explores the end of a relationship between two young gay black men, it had its film festival debut at UrbanWorld in New York City and has played at over twenty film festivals across North America. His most recent short film, “Tadpole”, which follows the possible beginning of a queer teenage romance, debuted at New Hampshire Film Festival 2018, where it was awarded Best Student Film, and has since played over a dozen festivals across the country. After graduating from Tisch Grad Film in May 2019, he relocated to Los Angeles and was selected as a fall intern at the coveted internship program at Bad Robot Productions. In January 2020, Jovan premiered his newest short film and NYU Grad thesis, BUCK, at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Elegance Bratton

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Elegance was thrown out of his mother’s home at the age of 16 in New Jersey for being gay. He spent the next 10 years homeless seeking refuge on Christopher Street and the New Jersey, Philadelphia metro areas. After ten years spent homeless, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps where he learned how to make films. Elegance’s award-winning short films have played in almost 150 film festivals world wide including Sundance, Outfest, and the American Black Film Festival. He is executive producer and creator of Viceland’s GLAAD-nominated series, My House. He is also the author of the Kassel Art Book award-winning photo book, Bound By Night. He served in the US Marine Corps as combat cameraman, holds an undergraduate degree from Columbia University, and an MFA from NYU Tisch Grad Film.

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