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    Sax, Cantor Riff

    Julie DASH 1997 USA Fiction color 6min English Digi Beta
    A young woman is on her way to visit her mother in the hospital. However, the trains have stopped running, her cell phone is not working underground. She’s forced to use a public telephone to share her last words with her dying mother. At the same time three disorderly teen girls are running through the underground. A jazz musician on the subway platform hears the noise and confusion. The distraught young woman on the telephone begins singing a spiritual song to her dying mother. This quiets the troublesome young girls. The jazz musician picks up on the young woman’s song and begins to improvise with his saxophone. A Jewish Cantor that just arrived on the platform also begins singing along with her.

    Director

    Julie DASH

    Julie DASH was born and raised in New York City, she earned her M.F.A. in Film & Television production at UCLA. DASH is a writer, producer and director. In 1992, with her lm Daughters of the Dust, DASH became the rst African American woman to have a full-length general theatrical release in the United States. It is the most important cinematic achievements in Black Cinema in the 20th century. In 2007, DASH received the Life Time Achievement Award from the Images of Black Women Film Festival in the UK. She was also nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for her lm The Rosa Parks Story.

    Julie DASH

    1973 Working Models of Success 1975 For Women

    1977 Diary of an African Nun 1982 黑白幻音 Illusions

    1991 Praise House

    1991 塵埃的女兒 Daughters of the Dust

    1997 Grip Till it Hurts

    1997 即興地鐵爵士樂 Sax, Cantor Riff

    1999 另類情人節 Funny Valentines

    1999 隱姓埋名 Incognito

    2000 愛之頌 Love Song

    2002 人權鬥士:羅莎派克 The Rosa Parks Story 2004 Brothers of the Borderland

    Director/Julie DASH

    Producer/Jonathan DEMME, Rosie PEREZ, Edward SAXON, Richard GUAY, Valerie THOMAS 

    Actor/Taral HICK , Kenny GARRETT, Sam ROCKWELL, Sol FRIEDER, Tammi CUBILETTE 

    Screenplay/Julie DASH 

    Cinematographer/Ken KELSCH

    Editor/Elizabeth KLING 

    Music/Joseph CONLAN

    Production Company:Clinica Estetico

    37 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960-3135, USA, Tel: 845-353-5666

    Sales Company:HBO

    2500 Broadway, Ste. 400, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA, Tel: 310-382-3000, www.hbo.com

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