Thu, Mar 24, 2016, 7:30pm

Booker T. Mattison: One Night, Three Films

Phoebus Film Club Series

  • Thu, Mar 24, 2016, 7:30pm
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Thu, Mar 24, 2016, 7:30pm

Booker T. Mattison: One Night, Three Films

Phoebus Film Club Series

We proudly present an evening of short films by local filmmaker Booker T. Mattison, an author and filmmaker who wrote the screenplay for and directed the film adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's classic story "The Gilded Six Bits," which aired on Showtime. It starred Chad L. Coleman ("The Walking Dead," "The Wire"), T'keyah Keymah ("That's So Raven," "In Living Color"), Wendell Pierce ("The Wire" "Ray") and Novella Nelson ("The Antwone Fisher Story"). The Hollywood Reporter said, "Mattison's direction and feel for her characters match up to Hurston’s sterling piece of fiction...full of atmosphere and strongly developed characters."

Mattison's last film "Habeas Corpus" starred Chad L. Coleman, Tim Reid ("Sister Sister" "WKRP in Cincinnati"), Jamie Hector ("The Wire," "Heroes") and Lee Chamberlin ("All My Children" "The Electric Company"). "Habeas Corpus" has won six film festival awards to date.

Mattison received his Master of Fine Arts in film and television from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and his Bachelor of Science in mass communication from Norfolk State University.
 
Mattison has taught literary criticism at the College of New Rochelle, film production at Brooklyn College advanced directing, screenwriting and film aesthetics at Regent University, and film criticism and the business of film at Hampton University.

Event Dates

Thursday, Mar 24, 2016 • 7:30pm