Tech Check

Last night I went to that hot new restaurant Tech and the check was like WOW! How much was that crab cake? …ok that was my attempt (ill attempt?) at humor.

Last night Gino (the EIC) and I did a tech check at the Rotunda Theater. A technical check or "tech check" is when a filmmaker goes to the theater to see their film projected on the screen to see that it looks AND sounds right. The Part and our “Special Secret Film” looked and sounded right. Thank God.

Below are some pics I took with my cell phone. Bootleg? Well it’s not really bootleg since it’s photos right? Ok say it’s bootleg, I think I’m allowed to bootleg my own film right?

Anyway, below are the pics, they may be dark, but IT IS footage from the film (If you look real hard you can see the little green exit signs to the left and right of the screen).

I have included captions describing some of what the footage in the photos is, but the best way to find out exactly what the footage it is is to SEE the film. You can read about where to do that right here. Shameless self promotion? On this level of independent film there is no such thing…SEE THE PART! LOL.

You can see a bigger version of the slideshow here

The Part-Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

‘Nother Brother Entertainment presents “The Part”

Baltimore, Maryland-November 23, 2009 - The Part, a Dankwa Brooks film, is a short film shot in Randallstown, Maryland.

Aisha is apprehensive, not ashamed, of revealing her new acting part to her family. Her father doesn’t make matters better by putting her on the spot to reveal it at a family cookout at their house.

Written in December 2007, The Part has its World Premiere December 15, 2009 at the Rotunda Cinematheque in Baltimore, Maryland.

With the majority of the story set at a cookout, The Part was shot in August 2008 with additional shooting (called pick up shots) during the spring and summer 2009. The cast and crew had a chance to see the film last October at a Private Screening and now the general public gets its chance.

The World Premiere will feature our film The Part as well as outtakes and bloopers. We will also be showing our film Making History with a bonus Special Secret Screening of one of our films.

The Part is listed on IMDb, the Internet Movie Database and we also created a blog Part Blog, Part News detailing much of the process it took to make the film.

‘Nother Brother Entertainment, LLC is an independent film production company in Baltimore, Maryland formed by multi-award winning writer and filmmaker Dankwa Brooks.

For screeners or to arrange an interview with Dankwa Brooks please contact:

Dankwa Brooks
Phone: 443-817-0757
Email: Dankwa@NotherBrother.com

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"The Part"-World Premiere

Aisha is apprehensive, not ashamed, of revealing her new acting part to her family. Her father doesn’t make matters better by putting her on the spot to reveal it at a family cookout at their house.

Written in December 2007, The Part finally has its World Premiere December 15, 2009 at the Rotunda Cinematheque (pictured below) in Baltimore.

With the majority of the story set at a cookout, The Part was shot in August 2008.

I expected this film to be finished a long time ago, but because of the yearly revolution of the Earth around the Sun and the tilt of the Earth's axis relative to the plane of revolution we had to halt production. In other words the seasons changed and we couldn't shoot additional shots for the cookout anymore. LOL.

We finally had additional shooting (called pick up shots) during the spring and summer 2009. The cast and crew had a chance to see the film last October at a Private Screening and now the WORLD gets its chance.

Now that we got the shots we needed it’s YOUR chance to see it. Tickets are available ONLINE at

The theater’s exact address is:

Rotunda Cinematheque
711 W 40th St
Baltimore, MD 21211-2120
(410) 235-5554
Get directions

Please come out and support the film…independent film…our film. Thank you.

Dankwa Brooks

Writer, Director and anything else you can think of for The Part

"The Part" Screening

Written in December 2007, The Part finally has its first public screening November 13, 2009. With the majority of the story set at a cookout, The Part was shot in August 2008 with additional shooting (called pick up shots) during the spring and summer 2009. The cast and crew had a chance to see the film last month at a Private Screening and now the general public gets its chance.

At CAmm Shorts, CAmm (Creative Alliance Movie Makers) presents its night of short films by local filmmakers. 'Nother Brother Entertainment's "The Part" by Dankwa Brooks will be featured among films by Travis Mays, Ryan Thomas, Michael Kimball, Hunter Nesbitt, Matthew Hahn and Linda Franklin. Q & A with filmmakers follows the films.

We are working on another public screening of The Part to feature our other films as well as outtakes and bloopers from The Part for hopefully early December.

The Part will screen
Friday, November 13, 2009
at the Creative Alliance at The Patterson.

*You can go to their website for ticket info and to read more information here

Remember you can ALWAYS read the latest information about The Part on our website
NotherBrother.com

There will be more screenings to come so STAY TUNED! and thanks for reading.

Tag!

Tagline that is. We now have a tagline and a new poster to boot. Both were supplied by our very talented AD (Assistant Director) Jack Sherman.

I've been trying to think of a tagline since I wrote this script, but Jack is the one who came up with what I thought summed it up succinctly. The tagline is below followed by the newest poster.

What if everyone wanted to hear,

what you weren't ready to say?

Previous blog entry about the previous posters The Second, our First

The Part on the Net

I am happy to announce that we have been selected to receive an IMDb Title Page for our film "The Part." The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information related to movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, featured in visual entertainment media. The IMDb website consists of one of the largest accumulation of data about films, television programs, etc. reaching back to each medium's respective beginning.

This means that everyone involved in our production will gain exposure on the most recognized and trafficked movie site in the world - with 57 million unique visitors a month.

There isn’t much on the page yet, but like this blog it will grow as time goes on. Updates have already been submitted and will have to go through the IMDb data managers for verification. In the meantime, enjoy our new Title Page. As IMDb put it "It's the best way to continue to promote and immortalize the work [we] have done."

You can go to our Title Page by clicking the IMDb logo below

The Second, our First

Waaay back this time last year, I wrote The Part. Soon after I designed a simple poster to help me actualize my script. I didn’t have a cast to feature in the poster so I had to come up with a concept that would fit the story and since the story involved an acting job, what better way to represent it than by showing a script and this is that poster.

So that was our first and below is our second, but it’s also the first. Confused? Bear with me there is a method to my madness. So how can our second be our first? This is our second poster, but the FIRST to feature our cast. Our man of many talents Gino designed the poster with the photos I picked. There will probably be more posters to come, but this is the first with our great cast.