Finished projects
SOUL STREET
Soul Street is a short documentary that explores the life and motivations of various street musicians across the United States. The filmmakers walked the streets or America looking for artists who bared their souls on the concrete stage, simply for the need of self-expression and the love of art.
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VENICE
BLACK WHITE & BLUE
An intimate visual and sonic impression of iconic Venice Beach California that explores life beneath the cliches of Muscle Beach and California beach life. Through poignant still photography, cinematic black and white filming and a lush jazz soundtrack, Venice Black White, and Blue search for the heartbeat of an extremely unique place in the country.
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THE TRUMPET PLAYER
A personal portrait of a young, formally homeless man, bound to a wheelchair, who survives through the notes of his trumpet and soulful raspy voice. Tragically shot multiple times in the throat, New Orleans native Craig Adams speaks wistfully of circumstance, serendipity, and the monumental life-saving power of music.
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Upcoming projects
Mock Poster
FOSTERING TALENT
Fostering Talent is a feature-length documentary, ostensibly about the foster care system in the United States, but told via four separate, but interwoven stories of talented young musicians in or from foster care environments.
Work IN Progress
“While there have been many books and programs created about this subject matter, none have taken this particular approach. Through
the lens of a strong and brilliant artist, Phillips’ poetry brings with it another dimension for the audience to process. One understands
more deeply, the brutally painful reality of slavery as practiced in Barbados and the wider Caribbean. “