JD Walker, Writer/Director and Producer
OSCAR MICHEAUX
 | 8 min I Drama I USA

Winner of the "Best Short" at The African American Film Festival and featured at The Cannes Film Festival, "Oscar Micheaux" is a 1920s drama set in Los Angeles, about a producer of silent films, starring African Americans in leading roles, who decides to take matters into his own hands when he is denied a distribution deal from Lincoln Motion Pictures.


Based on a true story, "Oscar Micheaux" had its debut at BHERC and would later go on to screen on Aspire TV. Jamie Walker who wrote and directed the short recently completed a feature script adaptation called "Within Our Gates." This is Walker's first short produced in the MFA Program at USC


AWARDS
WINNER: Best Short, African American Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Cannes Film Festival (2017, Short Film Corner)
Montreal Int'l Black Film Festival
Toronto Int'l Film Festival
African American Film Festival
Black Film Festival of New Orleans
African American Film Marketplace
Sistas Are Doiin' It for Themselves Film Festival
BHERC Film Festival

DIRECTOR/WRITER: JD Walker

PRODUCER: Valentino Misino

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Roy Arwas

CAST: Napoleon Douglas, Kim Estes, Tiffany Tenille, Scott Seifert,Ashar Baker, Anika McFall