A Dream Fulfilled... A Boy A Girl A Dream: Love On Election Night
Cass, (Omari Hardwick),
and Freida, a.k.a. Free, (Meagan Good), meet
on election night on the eve of the Donald Trump presidency. News clips and
radio announcements during the film help fuel the anxiety centered around this
news and the nervousness of the couple as they’re starting out. The mood of the
film is grey and the interaction between Cass and Free feels uncertain and
uncomfortable. Like layers of an onion, the masks that cover their fears peel
off to reveal the love they wish for and the dreams they are afraid to covet.
Hardwick and Good deliver a range of emotion filling silent spaces with
unspoken dialogues. Basir does a wonderful job of moving through locations letting angles add to the color of the film.
At the San
Francisco Film Festival Grand Lake Theater screening, Oakland/Richmond native Datari
Turner, (Video Girl, Growing Up Hip Hop), revealed he was inspired to create a film based on data from a Washington Post
article that found, there are only 13% of people who actually like doing what
they do. Turner collaborated with director and writer Qasim Basir and brought
the film to life with Samantha Tanner on
that premise. Rehearsed many times leading up to actual filming, Turner says it
took 13 takes to fulfill Basir’s dream of shooting a one-take
film.
A Boy. A
Girl. A Dream premiered in this year’s Sundance Film Festival's NEXT section
and will be released by Samuel Goldwyn this fall. Watch the clip!
Sources: IMDb, YouTube
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