Cast
Debbie Nunez, Julian Pimiento, Rayland VanBlake

Alrick Brown has an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. A writer and teacher, he has found his calling directing and producing narrative films and documentaries often focusing on social issues affecting the world at large. It was after visiting the slave castle of Elmina, in Ghana, that he was inspired to attend film school. For over two years he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cote d’Ivoire. The interactions with the people of his village and his overall experiences in West Africa have informed his creative expression; an expression first fostered by his birth in Kingston, Jamaica and migration to, and upbringing in Plainfield, New Jersey. A fluent French speaker, he graduated from Rutgers University with a BA in English and a Masters degree in Education. Since then he has devoted his energy to changing the world by giving a voice to the voiceless and telling stories that otherwise would not be told.

Alrick’s collective work has screened in over thirty film festivals, national and international, and received numerous awards. He was the recipient of The Director’s Cut Award for best short film and took 1st place in Allstate’s “Be Reel” commercial competition at the American Black Film Festival in LA. He and his co-producer, received the “HBO Life Through Your Lens Emerging Filmmaker Award” to produce their critically acclaimed documentary “Death of Two Sons.” Three of his films have played Lincoln Center. Recently, he was one of four NYU students featured in the IFC Documentary series “Film School”, produced by Academy award nominee Nannette Burstein. In February 2007 he addressed the Motion Picture Association of America on C-SPAN. At present, he is writing a feature length thriller titled, “The Shadows.”