San Francisco Black Film Festival Opening Night

BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL
This short documentary film tells the story of a man who uses his talents to support and lift his community. When the "Black Lives Matter" movement grew in awareness, Marcus Baskerville head brewer of Weathered Souls Brewing Co. wanted to shed light on the growing problem of inequality and police brutality. This is where the "Black is Beautiful" project was born. We follow the impact of the initiative and where it is today.

A FILM BY: Marco Antonio Ortega

Marco Ortega is an accomplished producer and director with over 20 years of experience in various areas of production. In 2016, he produced and directed the award-winning documentary "Brewed in the 210". Marco remains active in his craft, producing and directing diverse projects.

BOTTLES SPIRITS
50-something Louise is a native of West Oakland, California; a community once known as the Harlem of the West, and which gave birth to the Black Panther Party. Gentrification has turned her beloved community into unfriendly and unrecognizable territory and the weight of being Black in America now threatens to crush her. She straps on the daily armor of alcohol, cigarettes and a sharp tongue to block out the constant ache of losing everything that ever mattered. On this day however, a door she has been banging on for years magically opens, an ancestor arrives to help and Louise battles her demons - and herself - in a desperate attempt to find the courage to walk the difficult path toward redemption.

TIMELESS: A VIRGIN ISLAND LOVE STORY
TIMELESS is the story of Ajuwa, a young Ghanaian warrior, who loses her soulmate to the slave trade. Their souls reunite in the present in the form of Malinda Benjamin, a Senator in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Alphonse Walcott, a gifted writer who has returned home from New York. The kindling of the relationshipgoes sour when Alphonse meets Bianca, an illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic, sent to work in a seedy brothel in St. Thomas and falls in love with her instantly. Tension builds to a brewing storm as details of the pastrelationship are revealed, mirroring the present and the true nature of thespiritual misconnection in the transcendental love triangle is revealed.TIMELESS is a love story that brings the beautiful colors, emotion and culture ofthe Virgin Islands to the big screen. Carnival serves as a significant backdrop tothis production contributing to the presentation of the history and culture of thisisland nation and the Caribbean region, as it relates to the African Diaspora.

A Film Written and Directd and Produced by Edward La Borde, Jr.
A Film Jr. Executive Produced by David Edgecombe and the bays very own D’Wayne Wiggins

West Wind Artists presents TIMELESS, written, produced and directed byEdward LaBorde, Jr. Starring K’misha-Victoria Counts, Brummell Germain,Monai Greene, Julien Baa, SulayPeñalo, Elaine Jacobs, Bianca Castillo,Shanaka Harris, MargariteAqustine, Laurel Samuel and Americo Cabrera.