Better This World Day Dream (Drama)
(Documentary)
Day Dream is a feature-length drama that follows
Better This World follows the dramatic journey of
the jazz composer Billy Strayhorn as he travels
two childhood friends from Midland, Texas who set
to New Orleans to investigate the myths and
out to prove their manhood to themselves and a
legends surrounding Buddy Bolden, the forefather
revolutionary activist-turned FBI informant. The result:
of modern jazz who spent the last 24 years of his
eight homemade bombs, multiple domestic terrorism
life in a mental institution.
charges, and a controversial entrapment defense.
RODNEY EVANS
KELLY DUANE DE LA VEGA
Writer/Director
F
AST TRACK
Director/Producer
Rodney Evans is the recipient of IFP’s
Kelly Duane de la Vega is an award-
Gordon Parks Award for Screenwriting
winning documentary filmmaker. Her
for his screenplay Brother To Brother. He
feature documentaries have been shown
also received funding from ITVS, The Jerome Foundation,
in hundreds of film festivals around the world and broadcast
The Rockefeller Foundation, and The National Black
on PBS stations and on the Documentary Channel. Her
Programming Consortium (NBPC) towards the writing and
most recent film, Monumental: David Brower's Fight for
production of that project. Brother To Brother premiered at
Wild America, nominated for a 2009 Emmy award, opened
the 2004 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Special
theatrically nationwide and was selected by the New York
Jury Prize in Drama. The film was nominated for four
Film Society to screen at Lincoln Center. Called “stylish and
Independent Spirit Awards including Best First Film and
substantial” by Variety and “engrossing” by LA Weekly, the
Best First Screenplay. It aired nationally on the PBS series
film is part of the environmental studies curriculum in more
Independent Lens in June 2005. His autobiographical film,
than 50 universities including Yale, Harvard, UC Berkeley, and
Close To Home, has been shown at over 30 film festivals
Stanford. She is currently producing Uploaded, a television
throughout the world. The script for Day Dream is the first
series for IFC that focuses on emerging culture and is
place winner of the 2008 Newfest Screenplay competition.
scheduled to air in 2009.
Evans is a Creative Capital Grantee and a Guggenheim
Fellow for 2008-2009.
KATIE GALLOWAY
Director/Producer
SHELBY STONE Producer
Shelby Stone is an award-winning
Katie Galloway has produced, directed,
producer whose works include HBO's
and reported more than 15 hours of
Emmy, Golden Globe, and Image-
documentary television. Her work has
Award-winning Lackawanna Blues,
received numerous awards and honors, including the Society
which premiered at Sundance 2005, and the critically
of Professional Journalist's best documentary prize and two
acclaimed films Boycott, The Middle Passage, and
national Emmy nominations. Most recently Galloway directed
Lumumba. Stone began her career as an independent
and produced the feature documentary Prison Town, USA –
film executive working in marketing, acquisitions, and
a look at the impact of prison expansion on rural America.
finally production before launching her own production
Called "documentary making at its best" by The San Francisco
company with
Chronicle
Drop Squad, a Spike Lee/40 Acres and a
and "intriguing" by The New York Times, the film
Mule production. Currently she is the Senior Vice President
aired on the acclaimed national series P. O. V. in 2007. She
of Development and Production at Foxx/King Entertainment,
taught documentary production at the Columbia University
a newly formed company led by Jamie Foxx, Jaime King,
School of Journalism and now teaches in the Media Studies
and Marcus King. Life Support, Stone's latest film, was
department at U.C. Berkeley.
produced in conjunction with Foxx/King Entertainment
with Nelson George as writer and director. Starring Queen
Latifah, Life Support premiered at Sundance 2007 and was
the closing night presentation. Stone is the 2007 recipient
of the Black Women Film Preservation's Trail Blazer Award.
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