Sunday, January 27, 2008 The Plain Dealer Breaking news: cleveland.com Sunday Arts J7 LOCAL MEDIA Filmmaker from Chagrin Falls screens first feature at Sundance Cleveland area and took the idea trasts between urban and rural. with him to Los Angeles. "North Starr" was filmed in Starr" is the story of gust 2006 for about $100,000. Demetrious (Jerome Hawkins), He hopes his film eventually will who witnesses the murder of his be shown in theaters. best friend and decides to escape He graduated from Chagrin thug life in Houston.
During a Falls High School in 1988 and trip across Texas, Demetrious be- moved to Los Angeles in 1996. friends a black cowboy, Darring The self-taught filmmaker has (Stanton), and the pair winds up worked in television production in a segregated town with a dark and studied theater at Loyola secret. Marymount University in Los Why pull double duty as direc- Angeles. tor and actor? The film is Stanton's wasn't a stretch for me," tion of racial dynamics and viewStanton said. "I was sick of play- points.
Stanton gained an acute ing pathetically written charac- awareness of racial divisions ters." growing up in a multiracial famHe considered filming in ily of adopted kids. "North Starr" Cleveland, but instead chose doesn't assign blame, but emTexas for its wide skies and con- phasizes trust and connections, AMYSANCETTA ASSOCIATED PRESS "North Starr" writer-director Matthew Stanton, right, and actor Jerome Hawkins arrive at last week's premiere of their film at the Sundance Film Festival. Stanton grew up in Northeast Ohio and filmed his movie, which deals with race relations, in Texas. Life doesn't get much better than screening your first feature film for Julie sold-out audiWashington ences at the Sundance Film Festival. Just ask Matthew Stanton, writer, director and actor in the drama "North Starr." "There were a lot of wet and teary eyes," he said, speaking Monday, a day after the movie premiered.
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