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Film Courage: How important is it for a creative to have an agent or a manager?
Bomani J. Story, Screenwriter: I think it’s pretty important. My manager helped me. He was the one pushing the script out there. I don’t want to say making it official but in order to get into the door with these people, a manager or an agent is a good way to bridge that gap because I didn’t know anybody. How am I supposed to show up? You’d look like a crazy person. It might work for somebody but for me they were able to push my stuff out and get my name out there.
Film Courage: It can also hurt you. I did this when I was younger. There are protocols. Being young and foolish and not knowing what I was doing I thought this was okay. How long did it take you to get representation?
Bomani: It happened around my first feature Rock Steady Row. That was when my manager approached me, so that was probably around 2017 or 2018…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
Bomani J. Story was born in Riverside, California and raised in Redlands, California. Growing up, Bomani always had a love of reading literature and watching films. He even spent time writing his own short stories as a child. Upon graduation of high school, Bomani cut his teeth on filmmaking when he started making short films with his fellow collaborators. After two years at San Bernardino Valley College, Bomani was accepted into the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts to study film production. Since his graduation from USC in 2010, he has been honing his skills as a writer and director. Bomani makes his directorial debut with a reimagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, a classic literary horror story filmed through a modern lens (which world premiered at 2023 SXSW).
Vicaria is a brilliant teenager who believes death is a disease that can be cured. After the brutal and sudden murder of her brother, she embarks on a dangerous journey to bring him back to life. Inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster thematically challenges our ideas of life and death. Writer and director Bomani J. Story crafts a thrilling tale about a family that, despite the terrors of systemic pressure, will survive and be reborn again.
WATCH ‘THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER’
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