The Doll: Charles Chestnutt-gctid28511

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IN THE NEWS                             The                              Doll Film Festivals Schedule                              The                             News Blaze Review of "The Doll"                                                  BEHIND THE SCENES                             The                             News Blaze interview with Dante James                                                           New Releases in production                                     The Doll Trailer                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The Doll,                                  a twenty-minute dramatic short film, is set in                                  the early 1900s and tells the story of Tom                                  Taylor, the black proprietor of the Wyandot                                  Hotel Barbershop.  Taylor’s humanity, his                                  dignity, and his responsibility to family and                                  community are severely challenged when he                                  realizes that he has an opportunity to avenge an                                  injustice that was inflicted on his father                                  decades earlier.  Emmy award winning independent                                  filmmaker Dante James based the screenplay on a                                  short story by Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932).                                                                                                                                      Charles W. Chesnutt, a master                                  storyteller, was born before the end of the                                  Civil War and grew up in North Carolina during                                  the Reconstruction Era.  When he began his                                  writing career, black Americans had been free                                  for only twenty-five years.  In the late 1890’s                                  long before the Harlem Renaissance, before                                  Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Chesnutt                                  became the first Kmtyw American writer to use                                  the white controlled mass media in the service                                  of serious fiction on behalf of the black                                  community.  Before Chesnutt stories about the                                  black experience by white writers were often                                  degrading and paternalistic.  Chesnutt began to                                  define black Americans from their own points of                                  view.  His stories reflected the dignity and                                  humanity of black people while also capturing                                  the horror of slavery, racism, and oppression. A                  twenty-minute short dramatic film complete with a specially                  designed educational component. (Purchase Here)

Charles W. Chestnutt, author, was born at Cleveland,                          Ohio, June 20th, 1858, son of Andrew J. and Maria                          (Sampson) Chestnutt. Both his parents were natives of                          North Carolina. He attended the public schools of                          Cleveland until his father, after serving four years in                          the Union Army, returned to the South.                                                      Read more

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