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Early Riser (2011)
Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson
Drama · 5m
This short is based on Chester Himes’s novel Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) and its adaptation for the screen by Ossie Davis in 1970. The cotton in the novel and film comes from the region around Columbus, Mississippi. Shot in noir-style, the film focuses on the scene when detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones interrogate Lo-Boy, an artist/hustler, about the event around the demise of his friend Early Riser.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Kevin Jerome Everson
- Writer
- Kevin Jerome Everson
- Director of Photography
- Kevin Jerome Everson
- Editor
- Kevin Jerome Everson
- Producer
- Kevin Jerome Everson, Madeleine Molyneaux
Details
- Release date
- 2011-09-08
- Runtime
- 5m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Trich Arts, Picture Palace Pictures