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Brotherhood Choices
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Plays in: Short Stories (p50)
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Director/Editor: Brooke Sebold a73 Producer/Screenwriter/Music-Composer: Matthew Tyler
a73 Cinematographer: James Daly a73 Principal Cast: Mike Kingsbaker, Chris Riggi
Director/Screenwriter/Cinematographer/Editor/Narrator: Rashaad Ernesto Green a73
Principal Cast: Kaylin Bensinger, Reinaldo Marcus Green a73
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Two brothers are on their way home. Jared, a sophomore in
college and in life, returns to his small hometown where Choices explores a young man’s thought process as he makes
“nothing ever changes” only to discover that everything has. On love to his girlfriend, and how a person’s upbringing can affect
the drive from the bus stop to his house, Jared learns that his him or her in many ways. [adult content]
older brother Kief, whom he has always looked up to and
admired, has fallen into hard times. Their short trip encounters Rashaad Ernesto Green
more snags than either could have predicted, but Kief is
determined to bring his little brother home. [language]
Director’s Statement
Choices is the most personal film I have
Brooke Sebold
done to date. I have explored characters
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Graduate Student: Columbia University
and situations from my life in previous
Director’s Statement
work, but I have never told a true life story
verbatim in any film until now. I like
When Matt Tyler, my writer and producer, working in this way, because it’s so much easier to reveal the
showed me the script for Brotherhood, I depth beneath the words, for they come from a truthful place. I
was immediately drawn to the dynamic will hopefully be able to incorporate this way of working with
relationship between the brothers. Like a fictional stories I decide to tell in the future.
well-crafted story tends to do, Brotherhood
got me thinking about my own relationships. I began reflecting
Shot in 1 hour, edited in 20 minutes, Choices explores a real life
on that inevitable moment when I realized that my older
story from my childhood. Employing non-actors who were very
brother was, in fact, fallible. Over time, this script began to feel
comfortable with each other, the film stars my brother who
very personal to me and I knew that I had to direct it.
experienced the actual incident in the film, but was unaware of
the context until I showed him the final edit.
Filmography: An Hour North, Red Without Blue (2007 AIFF)
Filmography: 50 Shots, Belly of the Beast, The Can Collector, Premature, Safe At Home
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