JOIN US FOR OUR NEXT INSTALLMENT OF AFRO-PICKS, A CCCADI VIRTUAL TALK SERIES THAT HIGHLIGHTS EMERGING FILMMAKERS AND FILMS SET IN THE COMMUNITIES OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA.
Our October installment will feature the film “Junebug.” This film is an exploration of the fierce love between a daughter and father, the complexities of an absence that words can’t touch, the power of music, and the wonderland of memory.
At 28, Junie is a writer, obsessed with capturing the essence of her childhood growing up with her musician father, Davis. Davis, an alcoholic drummer with an infectious charm and an unending tenderness for his daughter is proving difficult to put into words. As Junie struggles to articulate Davis in her writing and to her boyfriend Calvin, she’s transported back in time through her own memories of him.
How do you explain someone impossible to love and impossible not to?
OUR HOST, ACTOR AND CONTENT CREATOR DERICK JAMES SHERRIER, JR. WILL SIT DOWN WITH FILMMAKER WINTER DUNN TO DISCUSS SPECIFIC SCENES FROM THE FILM AND EXPLORE THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF HER STORYTELLING.
WINTER DUNN
Winter Dunn is an award-winning director, producer and actress with a passion for depicting universal stories through the lens of BIPOC voices. Her style aims to merge independent film aesthetics with commercial viability.
Her most recent short film DEAR MAMA… World Premiered at SXSW 2022 and was awarded a Special Jury Mention in Drama at AspenShortsfest. Her debut short film JUNEBUG premiered at American Black Film Festival, made its television debut on FOX Soul and is currently streaming on Tubi and Issa Rae Presents/HOORAE. She produced Numa Perrier’s debut feature film, JEZEBEL which premiered at SXSW 2019, won Best Narrative Feature at the American Black Film Festival and is currently streaming on Netflix via Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY.
DERICK JAMES SHERRIER, JR
Black/LatinX, queer, proud Gemini actor & content-creator. Derick’s artistic mediums include: playwriting, poetry, directing & podcasting. Cohost of the @thenewyorkdose & @woodmorningtp podcasts.
Outside of the arts, he is a counselor at a LGBTQIA+ emergency housing shelter for displaced youth, he manages two night-clubs & spends his time in the outdoors with ADON, a BIPOC hiking group that he created.
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