Anomaly's Award-Winning Seattle Premiere!

Anomaly, the documentary film that I'm featured in, has premiered at several film festivals this year, but it won an award at the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival in Seattle in April.  Please see the updates I posted from Anomaly's website and check out more at www.anomalythefilm.com

 Love, Michelle

Award Winner in Seattle!

May 102010

Anomaly won the Local Filmmaker Award during its recent Seattle premiere at the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival! The cash award is given to a filmmaker acting in a significant production role who resides in Washington State. Co-Producer Sharon Smith, based in Seattle, was in attendance at the festival with Director/Producer Jessica Chen Drammeh. For a video interview from the festival premiere, check out ALHLive.com. Additional photos are posted on Anomaly’s Facebook page.

Each year, the LHAAFF strives to present creative, thought-provoking films that entertain and inform. Sharon and Jessica are thrilled to have presented Anomaly at the festival and honored to win the award. Other award recipients were Flags, Feathers and Lies (Jury Award) and Burn: The Evolution of An American City (Audience Award).

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From ALHLive.com:

"Anomaly" Shakes Things Up

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• "Anomaly" was eight years in the making.
• Director Jessica Chen Drammeh says she has struggled with racial identity previously in her life.

(ALH Live!) -- More than eight years in the making, Anomaly is a documentary film that has all the promise of bringing to the social forefront just the kind of conversation we need. Is it controversial? Sure. Are there uncomfortable moments during its 47-minute run time? You bet. Even so this courageous debut by director Jessica Chen Drammeh offers an elegance with it's adversarial nature that is rarely seen in cinema today.
 

Drammeh's narrative is contemplative, thoroughly informed and confident. She mixes her personal story with those of the documentary's subjects in a way that demonstrates clearly not only is she directing the film, but she is experiencing the film even as she guides the story.

In terms of the documentary's subjects, one stand out is Gabrielle, a young lady of african-american and white descent who was taken from her mother at birth under the weight of the most unimaginable circumstances. Drammeh does a fabulous job following through with Gabrielle's story. Another is Michelle. A firebrand of a woman of asian and white descent that is unapologetic about her choice to marry a black man in the face of her family's very clear disapproval and unabashed racism.

Learn more about Anomaly below:

• anomalythefilm.com
• anomalythefilm.wordpress.com