Byron Hurt's Upcoming Documentary Project

Let me just say this, filmmaker/activist Byron Hurt is truly on a roll when it comes to releasing critically engaging films. Since being on a festival high and PBS showing of his latest film Soul Food Junkies, Hurt has ventured into a new controversial project, Hazing: How Badly Do You Want In?

Hurt, who is also a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., has admitted to both being hazed and taking part in hazing activities. He would be inspired to make this film after the recent tragedy of Robert Champion, the FAMU drum major that was killed in a hazing incident back in 2011.

Check out the film announcement here:

Hazing: How Badly Do You Want In? from Byron Hurt on Vimeo.

Hurt has also initiated an Indiegogo campaign where you can donate to the film project HERE .

Film Projects That HAVE and/or NEED your SUPPORT!!

I just had to take a couple of moments to highlight some indie/short films that need your support!!

Byron Hurt's  Soul Food Junkies

                                                             
A Public Art project from Katie Yamasaki's If Walls Could Talk

                                                                
A Short Film project from Dina Fiasconaro I See a Darkness

Indie Doc "Soul Food Junkies" Twitter Chat Tonight 9 PM/EST

 

Soul Food Junkies...

140 Characters At A Time!

 

Byron Hurt To Host a Soul Food

Twitter Chat TONIGHT!

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

9:00 - 10:00 pm EST

 

   Login to your Twitter account tonight and get interactive 

with award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt (@ByronHurt) as

he tweets about the making of his new documentary

film Soul Food Junkies, the food justice movement, and

what he discovered about this beloved African American

cuisine. Questions and comments about the film, living and eating healthy, and other topics are all welcome TONIGHT at 9pm EST.

 

www.Twitter.com/ByronHurt  

(or search the #SoulFoodJunkies hashtag)

 

 

A little bit about the film...

"Is African American culture a culture of soul food junkies?"

 

Food traditions are hard to change, especially when they're passed on from generation to generation. In this PBS documentary, award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt shares his journey to learn more about the African American cuisine known as soul food.

Baffled by his dad's unwillingness to change his traditional soul food diet in the face of a health crisis, Hurt sets out to learn more about this rich culinary tradition and its relevance to Black cultural identity. He discovers that the love affair that his dad and his community have with soul food is deep-rooted, complex, and in some tragic cases, deadly.

 

Through candid interviews with soul food cooks, historians, scholars, as well as doctors, family members, and everyday people, Soul Food Junkies blends history, humor, and heartwarming stories to place this culinary tradition under the microscope. Both the consequences and the benefits of soul food are carefully addressed. So too is the issue of low access to quality food in Black communities, which makes it difficult for some Black people to eat healthy. In the end, Hurt determines whether or not Black people are addicted to this food tradition that has its origins in West Africa and the Black south, yet is loved all over the world.

Day 12 Black Movie Month Spotlight: "Soul Food Junkies"

Today's spotlight is just a little bit different. I wanted to spot the upcoming film Soul Food Junkies from award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt. It doesn't hurt to get a heads up on some new and innovative films.

In Soul Food Junkies, Hurt will explore the health advantages and disadvantages of soul food, a quintessential American cuisine.

Hurt is also known for his thought-provoking and provocative films I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America and Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes. 

Soul Food Junkies is set to be released in 2012.