Working Title: Black Resilience
The opening scene starts at the Skyblue Design Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. The camera will show different angles of inside the gallery, the artworks, gallery-goers, and the artist who are there. There will be close-up shots and wide shots of people talking and interacting with the art. The artists will be speaking about the gallery and what Black art means to them. The camera will capture Jimmy James Greene, an artist featured at the gallery. This gallery showcase will dominate the first three minutes of the documentary. B-roll will include artwork on the street in Brooklyn and Harlem, as well as landmark Black places in Harlem.
A flashback scene will be talking to Jimmy before the gallery show while he is at home in his studio. The camera will capture him working on his paintings and talking about his different pieces. The camera will catch all the beautiful artwork throughout his apartment and his art studio at home. The camera will also capture what inspires Jimmy and shoot them leading up to the next gallery showcase.
The documentary will showcase works from Calabar Gallery in Harlem, NYC. The camera will showcase the different contemporary African artists and African diaspora artists globally. It will capture these artists works that are often underrepresented in their zone creating Black art. I will also capture a conversation how about a recent incident where the gallery was burglarized and vandalized. Designer Sahara will tell the camera briefly what happened and there will be a shot to show what the break in looked like and the repair window.
The narrative arc is the challenges this person faces as a Black artist, especially as the pandemic still lingers. The main character of the documentary is the Black Artwork with jimmy and Sahara as supporting cast mates. The documentary will end with another art gallery showcase.
Main Characters: Black artwork, Jimmy and Sahara
Crew: Bre
Filming Locations: Brooklyn and Harlem
Shooting Timeline: End of February 2022 to April 2022