 | MEDICINE MAN
| World Premiere |
| Cast: | Lynette Belardo,
Alex Frederico,
Duane Burress,
Nerisha Penrose,
Clayton Dean Smith,
Antonio Tomahawk,
Cezar Williams | | Crew: | Producers: Himkar Tak, Summer Shelton - Screenwriters: Himkar Tak - Cinematographer: Michael Simmonds - Editor: Michael Taylor
| | Email: | himkart hotmail.com |
synopsis
Jimi, a 15 year old kid from the projects of Brooklyn, New York, journeys deep into the Adirondack Mountains in search of a fabled plant that might cure his father of paralysis.
biography
Himkar Tak, holds an MFA in filmmaking from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where he won the 2006 Goldberg Award for Best Screenplay with Fight, a story about a Latino boxer trying to keep his family together. He has worked on Mira Nair's Namesake, and closely with Indie Spirit Award winning writer/director Ramin Bahrani on Man Push Cart and Chop Shop which he helped make from the ground up. Following this he Co-Produced Cesar De Leon’s independent feature Salud, winner of Best Screenplay 2009 Beverly Hills Film Festival. Tak is now developing his feature film Kid Can Dream about a group of inner-city kids who one day come across a treasure map.
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filmmaker's note
Medicine Man is a short and simple story of a 15 year old kid, Jimi, who lives with his recently paralyzed father in the projects of Brooklyn, NY. When Jimi comes across a fabled plant that was once used by Iroquois’ medicine men to cure victims of paralysis, he undertakes a journey deep into the Adirondack Mountains in search of the plant, with the hope that if he finds it- it might give his paraplegic father another chance to walk.
I have spent time working with war vets many of which are now paralyzed. This film has come out of their stories. I wanted to capture a family dealing with this situation at home, and what it would take to bring them from despair to hope. Ces, the father in Medicine Man is a character I’ve met before in real life, a man coping with the recent paralysis of his legs, and after having seen the worst side of war, no longer believes life is really worth living. Jimi, his son, is a direct oppositional force to Ces. The kid doesn’t know any limits when it comes to his father’s injury and will stop at nothing to help him fix it. With Medicine Man I wanted to show that a kid who dreams can be a powerful instrument of change.
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