Early Riser (2011)
This short is based on Chester Himes’s novel Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) and its adaptation for the screen by Ossie Davis in 1970. The cotton in the novel and film comes from the region around Columbus, Mississippi. Shot in noir-style, the film focuses on the scene when detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones interrogate Lo-Boy, an artist/hustler, about the event around the demise of his friend Early Riser.
Director: Kevin Jerome Everson
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James McGilbray as Gravedigger Jones |
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Dawon Owens as Lo-Boy #1 |
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Robert Stewart as Lo-Boy #2 |
| Production | Kevin Jerome Everson | Producer |
| Production | Nate Paige | Production Assistant |
| Art | Redwin Lewis | Production Design |
| Directing | Kahlil Pedizisai | First Assistant Director |
| Editing | Kevin Jerome Everson | Editor |
| Production | Artis Gayne | Production Assistant |
| Production | Madeleine Molyneaux | Producer |
| Production | Madeleine Molyneaux | Casting |
| Costume & Make-Up | Matilda Washington | Wardrobe Assistant |
| Writing | Kevin Jerome Everson | Writer |
| Directing | Kevin Jerome Everson | Director |
| Production | Gina Washington | Production Assistant |
| Camera | Kevin Jerome Everson | Director of Photography |
