For Immediate Release

2009 film schedule

Program Guide

Thank you Sponsors

Venues in Oakland

Oakland filmmakers

Thinking local
reaching international

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EVERYDAY BLACK MAN

SCREENS MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 @ JACK LONDON THEATER

Since closing the door to a violent past, quiet and thoughtful Moses Stanton everyday existence is running a small neighborhood store, and watching over his daughter who doesn't know he exists. When a young man, Malik, comes in claiming to be a black Muslim that is doing good for the neighborhood, Moses takes him on as a partner but soon realizes that Malik is nothing but a drug dealer seeking to destroy the neighborhood and Moses's daughter. Therefore, Moses must become the man he used to be in order to save his beloved neighborhood and his daughter.

Written by Carmen Madden