This is an excerpt from the full-length film THE RETURN OF BLACK SHAMUS, based on the album AfroCentaur, A Love Story in Twelve Parts by OYASABA.
This film, inspired by both Film Noir and Blaxploitation, depicts the travails of Black Shamus as he returns home after being incarcerated for a crime he did not commit.
Starring: Lara Vallance and Rhasaan Oyasaba Manning.
Director of Photography: Tyrone Brown-Osborne.
Writer, Producer, and Director: Rhasaan Oyasaba Manning.
This film is in post-production.
This teaser is presently featured in Time Is Love.8, an international screening project: