Brother to Brother
Brother to Brother is a feature-length drama which invokes the glory days of the Harlem Renaissance through the memories of Bruce Nugent, who co-founded the revolutionary literary journal Fire!! with Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Wallace Thurman. As an elderly man, Nugent meets a young black gay artist struggling to find his voice and together they embark on a surreal narrative journey through his inspiring past.
After winning the IFP Gordon Parks Award for Screenwriting, Brother to Brother had its world premiere at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize for passion of subject. The film had its European premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, 2004.
Brother to Brother is the first feature-length narrative drama that deals with the rich cultural time period known as the Harlem Renaissance. It presents the lives and experiences of well known writers such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston who are read throughout the world and brings wider recognition to lesser known but equally important figures such as Bruce Nugent and Wallace Thurman. The film strives to make links between these historical figures and the lives of young, contemporary African-American artists as they begin to emerge and fulfill their full potential. While the film centers on African-American artists of the Harlem Renaissance and the present day, I believe the quest for a meaningful identity and an original and truthful artistic voice is a universal theme that resonates on a global level. The film strives to acknowledge the diversity and complexity within the African-American and gay and lesbian communities and to give voice to experiences that have been vastly underrepresented in cinema for far too long.
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