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[John Oluwole Adekoje]'s "Ricky's Palm and Ribs," one of the films at the Roxbury Film Festival, offers just such a culturally rich story-line. As he describes the plot of the 26-minute short, T-Bone wants to avenge his sister's murder. To pinpoint details of the killer, he goes to Ricky, a seer who combines selling ribs with reading people's futures using a fax machine.
Here he's found a lot to his liking. "The community is solid and small and very progressive," he says. "Everyone has input from the director to the playwright to the actor. None of the dictatorial 'I say so, and that's it!' It's more of a communal experience between the artists and that improves my work."In my film 'Ricky's Palm and Ribs,' you'll see an old man with wings walk down the street," says Adekoje. "That man represents my grandfather and his generation, people who had a different approach on how to survive. He repeatedly offers T-Bone a drink of water to cool his angry passion but T-Bone wants a quick fix to his hurt."See the full content of this document
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African-Born Playwright Probes Generational Divides
An award-winning writer of film scripts and stage plays, John Oluwole Adekoje of Jamaica Plain was brought up by strict African parents.
Since he was born in the U.S., however, "when I was young, as soon as I walked out the door, I wanted to be as much of an African American as the other kids."Back in my parents'...See the full content of this document
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