Yelling To The Sky’s NY Premiereby Wilson Morales
June 10, 2011
Last night, Blackfilm.com attended the NY Premiere of Victoria Mahoney‘s directorial debut, ‘Yelling To The Sky‘ at the 16th Annual Gen Art Film Festival.
In attendance were Mahoney along with most of the cast and producers.
After the screening at the Visual Arts Theater, guests were invited to join the cast at The Griffin in NYC’s Meatpacking District to get the afterparty started. Once there all were treated to Disaronno cocktails, Brancott Estate Wines, ABSOLUT cocktails, and Skinny Water while dancing and mingling in the stylish lounge space.
Director: Victoria Mahoney
Screenwriter: Victoria Mahoney
Producers: Victoria Mahoney, Ged Dickersin, Diane Houslin, Billy Mulligan
Cast: Zoe Kravitz, Jason Clarke, Antonique Smith, Yolonda Ross, Gabourey Sidibe, Shareeka Epps, Sonequa Martin, Tariq Trotter, Tim Blake Nelson, EJ Bonilla, Gio Perez, Gleendilys Inoa, Dennis Kellum, Marc John Jeffries, Adam Tomei, Billy Kay, Peter Tambakis, Antoine de Pharoah, Sarah Schaefer, Maurice Compte, Zabryna Guevara
Like most teenagers, 17-year-old Sweetness O’Hara (Zoe Kravitz) has arrived at the first of several life changing forks in the road. However, Sweetness has some significantly heavier balls to juggle than the typical teenager’s song and dance. Firstly, she’s the daughter of mixed race parents in a less than tolerant community. Her father, who’s white, has alcoholic tendencies and a history of being abusive. Her mother, who’s black, has a mild mental illness, the exact nature of which Sweetness is unsure. Her protective older sister Ola is pregnant, and though she‘s of great help to Sweetness, has no support for herself from the child’s father. Yet with all this chaos enveloping her, Sweetness still has to deal with the outside world and life in and around school is a minefield of obstacles that she must face on a daily basis. But this is all part of the way it goes growing up in a tough, working class Queens neighborhood – where to become an adult, you first must survive as a teenager.
