Trailer for my Interracial Film I Wrote and Directed

[sweet catherine]

I been away from the site for a while working on my filmmaking career. I made a film about the topic that has defined my life and perhaps most of our lives here, interracial dating. Here's the link to the trailer.


https://vimeo.com/51918748

The film will debut at several film festivals next year and the people at Orlando Film Fest already want the film to headline their film festival next year. I am very excited to see people's reactions to it. The story goes to some pretty dark places. Thanks and appreciate any thoughts and comments!

I loved it x

 

[Sin Mari]

Thanks for your input Sin Mari and Tamstrong but as I said, this teaser is about MORE than just my film. It is a statement on IR and IR films in general. Next year I will release a full trailer that will ONLY show footage from my film and it will show more of the scenes from my film. The movie is still being sound mixed. We could not show too much from the movie because it is not ready. This teaser was about IR films in general and gave a few hints to our film as far as what its gonna look like but nothing in this teaser talks about the story or our characters. We're saving that for the full trailer next year. The hype this teaser created did exactly what I expected it to.

What was that? To stop people wanting to see the finished film?

 

[tford]

Can't wait to see the full trailer!

 

[andreboba]

I respect the effort and work you put in on your own to direct and produce an independent film.

But I have a hard time relating to the main character. He seems desperate which is never an attractive quality in a man.

I think he comes across from what I've seen as a man who has nearly an unhealthy obsession with WW. Like any attractive WW will do.

If it's just sex then cool. But it seems like he wants more than that, as though he's trying to pursue relationships. I dunno, dude seems upside down to me.

Who's your audience for this??
I think it would be received the same was if the main protagonist was a WM who was obsessed with Asian women. Stereotypical.

It's hard to rationalize an attraction that defies pure logic, which a personal preference shouldn't have to do anyway.

But as a viewer I need to be able to relate to the main character. I could relate to Wesley Snipes character in Jungle Fever, this guy in your film feels foreign to me.

I get the feeling this character is into WW because he doesn't like BW, and that's a screwed up way to get to your attraction for WW.

I like women who are White, not only White women if that makes sense.

BTW the first trailer reminded me of a documentary.
The second one was more coherent.

 

[Soulthinker]

I look forward to that trailer myself soon.

 

[playboy90210]

I respect the effort and work you put in on your own to direct and produce an independent film.

But I have a hard time relating to the main character. He seems desperate which is never an attractive quality in a man.

I think he comes across from what I've seen as a man who has nearly an unhealthy obsession with WW. Like any attractive WW will do.

If it's just sex then cool. But it seems like he wants more than that, as though he's trying to pursue relationships. I dunno, dude seems upside down to me.

Who's your audience for this??
I think it would be received the same was if the main protagonist was a WM who was obsessed with Asian women. Stereotypical.

It's hard to rationalize an attraction that defies pure logic, which a personal preference shouldn't have to do anyway.

But as a viewer I need to be able to relate to the main character. I could relate to Wesley Snipes character in Jungle Fever, this guy in your film feels foreign to me.

I get the feeling this character is into WW because he doesn't like BW, and that's a screwed up way to get to your attraction for WW.

I like women who are White, not only White women if that makes sense.

BTW the first trailer reminded me of a documentary.
The second one was more coherent.

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Yes he IS desperate and it is not attractive to women and that is one of the reasons he has struggles getting into a relationship. I dont think you need to relate to a character to empathize with him or follow his story or care for him. I couldnt relate to Ed Norton in American History X because I dont know what its like to be a neo-nazi skinhead or go to jail or be raped, but guess what, his performance still captured me and I still cared for his character and wanted him to get out of that life and protect his little brother. I dont know what its like to be a poor painter who falls in love with a rich girl but I could still root for DiCaprio's Jack character to survive with Kate Winslet on Titanic. Everyone can relate to the quest for love and happiness and having a certain "type".

Yes he does have a very unhealthy obsession and ADDICTION to white women and the film shows you some very dark and disturbing things he does to satisfy that addiction that might turn some audiences off, which is the point. Like in SHAME, when Michael Fassbender goes to the gay nightclub and has the guy go down on him. My film has a similar "WTF" moment toward the end where you truly see how badly our main character needs a white woman in his bed/life. And he doesnt get his attraction to WW mainly from a dislike of BW (although thats a small part of it). It comes from something bad that happened to him (and me as well) in his childhood. Something bad from the mouth of a WHITE GIRL. The film has a flashback half way through that reveals and explains that.

And there are MANY people who can relate to being desperate for finding love or having an obsession with a certain "type" they want love from. I dunno how large that audience is but they are out there and this film is for them. This film is not your typical main character and doesnt have your typical ending or love story. It's a movie full of fucked up and dysfunctional people doing what they can to get by. Doing things most people would deem unthinkable as if they are just normal. We have drug addicts, kleptomaniacs, pathological liars, hookers, strippers, loners, an abuser, all with their own way of living their life and how their psychological issues are preventing them from finding love/happiness, no matter how bad they search for it.