A Short Break

a Short break is excited to announce its next guest Director and Writer Katie Mack (Boxer, Charlie). With your host Damien D. Smith and co-host Emma J. With special guest Lamar K. Cheston. 

Showcasing her short: Missing You

Synopsis: Missing You takes a look at how fate plays a part in everyday life and in the lives of complete strangers. What makes someone decide to challenge fate? Accept it? Act on it? Not knowing where his new mission will lead him, Logan takes a chance on making fate work in his favor, not knowing that Ms. Mack also has a similar mission.

a Short break is excited to announce its next guest Director and Writer Tracy "Twinkie" Byrd (As Casting Director: American Skin/Notorious). With your host Damien D. Smith and co-host Emma J.

Showcasing her short: The Counter: 1960

Synopsis: In this award -winning short, Byrd intersects history’s present with its past-interconnecting the issues that impact society and culture. Set in 2017, three conscious (woke) Black students find themselves seated at a lunch counter in 1960. Will they be served?

a Short break is excited to announce its next guest Director and Writer Angela McCrae (The BFF Chronicles). With your host Damien D. Smith and co-host Emma J.

Showcasing her short: #WhereIsBeauty

Synopsis: R&B singer song-writer, Goapele plays Nina, a mid 20’s visual artist whose art depicts the feminine beauty of all women but struggles with self-identity as a multicultural millennial woman. While flipping through social media her frustration leads her to brood over old photos of complex stages in her life. She’s inspired to create a portrait that represents her personal voyage to self confidence and finally see her beautiful self.

a Short break is excited to announce its next guest Director and Writer Nathan DuConge (Eden, Nirvana). With your host Damien D. Smith and co-host Emma J.

Showcasing his short: Dr. Friday

Synopsis: Set in the small town of Pottstown, Georgia, “Dr. Friday” follows young, exiled journalist Nick Spade on his mission to uncover the unsolved the disappearances of Black people in his community. However, the re-birth of a supernatural venom erupts underneath the soil, feasting on the bloodshed of victims from racism and hatred. Will he be able to destroy it in time?

a Short break is excited to announce its next guest Director and Writer Lawrence 'Law' Watford (The Mourning After, Flipped). With your host Damien D. Smith and co-host Emma J.

Showcasing his short: Catharsis

Synopsis: A Black woman mourning the death of her child at the hands of an NYPD officer confronts the ambitious district attorney that refused to bring charges against the officer. The film stars Genia Lear Morgan, Jamie Ragusa, Richard Lowenburg, Bobby DeJesus, and Kostas Paragios.

a Short break is excited to announce its next guest Director and Writer Bobby Huntley (Auntie, La Vie Magnifique D Charlie). With your host Damien D. Smith and co-host Emma J.

Showcasing his short: TNC 

Synopsis: Starring Cecil M. Henry, Monica Anderson, Letitia Jackson, and J. Elliott, a young man in a bar finds out that he has more in common with the patrons than he bargained for.

a Short Break is excited to announce its next guest Actor and EP Denzel Whitaker. With your host Damien D. Smith.

Showcasing his short: Will The Machine 

• Winner of Cordillera International Film Festival
• Winner of Best Actor 307 Film Festival

a Short Break is excited to announce its next guest Director and Writer Michael A. Pickney. With your host Damien D. Smith.

Showcasing his short: THE TRADE

a Short Break is excited to announce its next guest Director and Comedian Kojo Anim (#THE WEEKEND). With your host Damien D. Smith.

Showcasing his short: BOYS

SYNOPSIS: BOYS is a short film about women who are having various conversations about the negative impact, men are having in their lives. Written, produced and directed by Kojo Anim. Amin was also a finalist on Britain’s Got Talent

a Short Break is excited to announce its next guest EP and Actor Stephen Hill (#MagnumPi, #Widows). With your host Damien D. Smith.

Showcasing his short: Tales from Shaolin Pt one SHAKEY DOG

SYNOPSIS: Tales From Shaolin reinterprets the works of the Wu-Tang Clan as a Shakespeare-meets-Tarantino, crime-filled action-comedy. Part One: "Shakey Dog" stars Stephen Hill as narrator "Ghost" and Dominique Spencer as the quiet yet eager Frank in this tale of a stick up gone wrong

a Short Break is excited to announce its next guest Director and Writer Carl Seaton (#TheChi #Snowfall #OneWeek). With your host Damien D. Smith.

Showcasing his short: KARIM

SYNOPSIS: The story of one unassuming man that witnesses a traumatic event. The event causes the man to decide to take action that will 'rectify' the situation. 

a Short Break is excited to announce its next guest Director and Writer Jackie J Stone. With your host Damien D. Smith.

Showcasing her short: Burning Angel Dust

a Short Break is excited to announce its next guest Director Morocco Omari (Empire, 21 Bridges). With your host Damien D. Smith.

Showcasing his short: Good Intentions

a Short Break is excited to announce its next guest Director Jammie Patton (God Friended Me, Compersion). With your host Damien D. Smith and co-host Emma J.

Showcasing her short: Finding Her Light

SYNOPSIS: A coming of age tale about a young ballerina in search of her identity after her father abandons her. 

a Short break is excited to announce its next guest Director and Writer Gino Payne (Half Untold, Little Big Detail). With your host Damien D. Smith.

Showcasing his short: Son of Sheba

SYNOPSIS: Son of Sheba is an 11-minute narrative based on the Queen of Sheba, “Makeda,” and her son, “Menelik.” The film explores the theoretical idea of an intimate conversation between mother and son. 

a Short break is excited to announce its next guest Director and Writer Angela Tucker (All Styles, Belly of The Beast). With your host Damien D. Smith and co-host Emma J.

Showcasing her short: All Skinfolk Ain't Kinfolk

SYNOPSIS: After a contentious race last fall, the runoff for mayor of New Orleans came down to two candidates: Desirée Charbonnet and LaToya Cantrell, two very different black women. The winner of this election would take office as the first female mayor of New Orleans and the city's fourth black mayor. Through news footage, campaign advertisements and archival audio and video, All Skinfolk Ain't Kinfolk is the unprecedented story of this mayoral runoff told through the eyes of black women living in this city.

a Short break is excited to announce its next guest Director and Writer Tracy Taylor-Dwyer (The Good Doctor, THE NEW 20s, Birthday). With your host Damien D. Smith and co-host Emma J. 

Showcasing her short: NAKED

SYNOPSIS: Naked tells a story of love, lies, miscommunication, loss, and ultimately, sacrifice.

a Short break is excited to announce its next guest Director and Writer Sterling Milan (#ComptonDreams #TheGetDown #RatBuster). With your host Damien D. Smith and co-host Emma J. This episode also features a special guest, Akintola Jiboyewa!

Showcasing his short: ABOUT THE PEOPLE

SYNOPSIS: Concerned pillars in the African American community meet with one goal in mind: change.

Note: This episode starts right at the short break :)

a Short Break is excited to announce its next guest Director/Writer Nijla Mu'min (Jinnthemovie, Insecure, Queen Sugar). With your host Damien D. Smith and co-host Emma J.

Showcasing Director and Writer Nijla Mu'min's short DREAM

SYNOPSIS: A young girl strives to rekindle her parent's dwindling romance at their desert town's annual carnival, and learns hard lessons about love in the process.