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4/2/10

Bullets Over Brownsville will premiere at the 2010 Black International Cinema Berlin Film Festival in Berlin, Germany on 5/6/10 at 10pm at the RATHAUS SCHÖNEBERG. FROM BROWNSVILLE TO BERLIN.

3/28/10

Bullets Over Brownsville screens in Baltimore Maryland.

3/27/10

Bullets Over Brownsville screens in Washington D.C. in the nations capitol.

2/14/10

Bullets Over Brownsville had it’s Los Angeles Premiere over the past week and it was cRAzY. We wanna thank the people of L.A. and the Pan African Film Festival for their continued support.

Stay tuned for video of premiere.

1/7/10

Bullets Over Brownsville will be screening at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles next month. Screening Times are:

THU Feb 11 @ 10:15pm

FRI Feb 12 @ 4:30pm

Come out and show your support!

12/4/09

Bullets Over Brownsville NYC Premiere was a great success and we thank everyone who came out to support. If you missed it, stay tuned for upcoming dates and times for next screenings.

11/19/09

THIS IS IT!

New York City Movie Premiere of BULLETS OVER BROWNSVILLE is here. Free Admission with limited seating so ALL MUST RSVP!

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Come out and be apart of this major event.

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7/24/09

Cast and Crew will be out representing Bullets over Brownsville movie during Old TImers Day in Brownsville so stop by and check us out.

6/13/09

After a long production process, the movie is almost complete with the premiere screening scheduled near end of August '09. Check back for exact time and date of screening.

2/24/09

Movie is still scheduled to be completed sometime this Spring. If any questions feel free to hit us on Contact page.

12/13/08

We appreciate the patience and anticipation for Bullets Over Brownsville. The film is still in post production and is on schedule to premiere in the spring of '09.

Check back for more updates.

8/5/08

Bullets Over Brownsville is a feature film project currently in post-production scheduled to be completed by the Fall of 2008.

Check back for future updates.

12/30/09
Bullets Over Brownsville Review
- By Steven Boone Slant Magazine
NYC Premiere
Everything my astute friends tell me Jean-Luc Godard was up to in his New Wave touchstones, I find writer-directors Damon Diddit and Natural Langdon doing in their camcorder hood docudrama, Bullets Over Brownsville. This is a mischievous, sorrowful, movie-and-music-mad anthem that plays like epic screwball tragedy on the big screen. It is the furthest thing from perfect, this mircobudget tale of four Brooklyn housing project residents caught in an absurd web of violence, but BoB is the best film of 2009 because, like Flooding with Love for the Kid, only bigger, it tears away the last Ho'wood veil (the one made of billion-dollar bank loans and foreign tax shelters). Diddit takes digital effects, editing and cinematography credits, and I salute his desktop-graphic swagger: Under a sick, sad beat by Langdon, the opening credit sequence blends street corner soundbites, video scan lines and the kind of splashy keyframe animation currently in vogue on Smokin’ Aces-through-Slumdog Milllionaire. At the Brooklyn screening I attended, it played as confidently as any of those Ho’wood releases.
Diddit/Langdon‘s fragmentary, cross-cutting, rewinding, film-and-TV-referencing storytelling makes BoB the kind of ghetto art film Spike Lee toyed with in his adaptation of Clockers (whose blown highlights and reversal-stock candy colors are among the many visuals this film expertly quotes). But, like the creator of his source material, Richard Price, Spike was an outsider weighing in. Watching BoB, I have little doubt that at the end of each shooting day, much of the cast and crew went home via the project stairwells. Be warned, arthouse regulars: This film is not apt to fuel coffee shop discussion afterward. It doesn’t speak your snarky, jaunty post-graduate language. Vibrant as it is, it is essentially about people who are drowning, inside a system that favors you, not them. Bullets Over Brownsville isn’t asking you to pity them or save them. This isn’t Mike Tyson or Precious crying into the camera (or to Oprah). This is the hood throwing a party for its own (heavily disputed, usually caricatured) humanity, using Ho’wood’s snatch-and-grab storytelling techniques the way insurgents employ the occupier’s discarded ammo—in retaliation. Bullets Over Brownsville is a sprawling graffiti mural in a movie landscape dominated by sterile billboards.
I liked it. - Steven Boone
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Steven Boone is a New York-based critic and filmmaker, a contributor to Vinyl is Heavy and the publisher of Big Media Vandalism.

To view official site and article click here

BULLETS OVER BROWNSVILLE REVIEW

URBAN MEDIA MAKERS FILM FESTIVAL

ATLANTA, GA

I was sitting here wondering how I was going to put this post into words, and well I guess the only way is from the heart. On yesterday I had an opportunity to attend a private screening of an Independent Film called "Bullets Over Brownsville". I went as a I normally do with a notion as to what I thought it would be about and just enjoy the film. This film was unlike others I have watched for screening purposes. I mean, I went and saw films like The Duchess, or GForce by screening invites, and yet this one was truly thought provoking and as I defined it "Profound". Without giving too much information away- this movie is based in Brownsville- in eastern Brooklyn NY. I have not heard of this district and had to Wikipedia the demographics in order to write this post, and even that information startled me. Wikipedia- describes Brownsville as: " Brownsville also known as Bville and Tha Ville is a low-income residential neighborhood located in eastern Brooklyn, New York." Columnist and Author Jimmy Breslin wrote "Brownsville reminded him of

Berlin after the war; block after block of burned-out shells of houses, streets littered with decaying automobile hulks. The stores on the avenues are empty and the streets are lined with deserted apartment houses or buildings that have empty apartments on every floor. "

With these types of sentiment, it is not hard nor should it be hard to imagine what this movie is about. What can be hard is knowing that places like Brownsville exist and they are right here in our beloved United States but are not widely known unless you live there or are near the area. I was honored to be able to sit through this screening and listen to how it came to be on screen. The directors, and writers, Damon Diddit and Natural Langdon gave myself and the rest of the audience a look into Brownsville and how Brownsville can become a true day to day fight for survival. They gave visual insight of a community that seems to be left behind by the rest of the world, where the word HOPE may seem to be if anything but another term or perhaps that glistening carrot at the end of a rope being dangled in front of someone that hungers. Lymiek Chambers, one of the characters in this film gave a heart wrenching look at the struggles of being a young man on parole trying to do the right thing, but in the end being crushed by society and having to revert back to what he knows best- crime. This movie focused on different characters and their struggles in living in Brownsville day to day, and with perhaps dreams of how to get out while they still could. Damon, Natural and Lymiek were gracious hosts in showcasing their film, their story. They are the success Rebels with a Cause in bringing to light truth in hopes of reaching out to others in spreading the word that this community is in need of support and HOPE. I capitalize the word HOPE because it means so much to me. HOPE is defined as:

1. a specific instance of feeling hopeful

2. the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled

3. grounds for feeling hopeful about the future

4. someone (or something) on which expectations are centered

Hearing the stories from residents of Brownsville, seeing actual raw footage of Police brutality and at times looking the other way- It can be hard for people to obtain that piece of security when you're living in a war zone.

Now I am plagued by my own questions-

"Now that I know, what can I do?" "Do things like this happen in white communities and if not why is it so different?" "Does this problem only reside in lower income areas?" I do not have the answers. I wish I did, because in having that knowledge programs can be constructed to give that HOPE. Some may say- "Oh it's because of poverty." and yet the last time I checked, poverty knows no bounds. It weaves it's way to individuals like a snake with no regards to skin color. Some say "Oh it's the drugs". Is it really a substance, or is it the making of money off the substance that turns a community against each other? I guess the only answer right now, is within us. Some have just rested in a place of turning the other cheek with the frame of mind of :"Well, it's not happening in my backyard so- why bother?" and yet I ask you as well as myself, when and I only say when because it is only a matter of time until it reaches our backyard:

"what will we do then?"

For now this is what I can do. I can write about what I saw in hopes that someone will take a moment to click on this link: Bullets Over Brownsville

Check it out, watch the trailer, support the artists and the vision. Spread the word in hopes of these gentleman being able to create more features and to perhaps one day be able to establish HOPE for a community that seems to be left behind. Each One, Teach One.

Now YOU KNOW, so what are you going to do? - Callie

Callie is a film critic/blogger who sat in a screening at the Urban Mediamakers Film Festival.

You can view the official site and article here.