Malik Yoba film DREAMING IN BLACK AND WHITE Directed by Joe Eckardt WINS at Phoenix Film Fest

The short film DREAMING IN BLACK AND WHITE puts racism back on the front burner. With outstanding direction and acting it wins Best Short Film at the Phoenix Film Festival 2003

What seems to be a throw back to the Twilight Zone is actually a stirring piece of cinema that has recently won BEST SHORT FILM at the 2003 Phoenix Film Festival.

Directed by up and comer Joe Eckardt this film challenges you to reassess where we are today in regards to race. Malik Yoba stars in the 17 minute film and delivers a powerful performance as a black man lost in a white man's world.

Yoba made famous in the series television series NY Undercover, plays a strong, independent, black man who finds himself lost. What he finds is a pocket of life stuck in another era, where prejudice and intolerance are accepted. Ultimately he must try to escape without losing his life.

As the story unfolds so do our ideas about how far we have really come since the civil rights era. Eckardt, being Colombian, knew that he wanted to tell a story that could transcend races and gender, which is what he did.

The film played to a packed audience who hopefully took home their own interpretation of DREAMING IN BLACK AND WHITE.

The film will also be part of the upcoming San Francisco Black Film Festival and the Pacific Palisades Film Festival in Los Angeles.