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Strong Friend, Let Go - *Temp Cut - Awaiting Final Sound & Color*

A community of artists struggles to let go of past resentments in order to peacefully lay their mentor to rest.

  • Larry Powell
    Director
  • Larry Powell
    Writer
  • Galen J. Williams
    Writer
  • Anwar Ali
    Writer
  • John Sweet
    Writer
  • Colin Carswell
    Writer
  • Larry Powell
    Producer
  • Angelica Robinson
    Producer
  • Britny Horton
    Key Cast
  • Philicia Saunders
    Key Cast
  • Anderlyn Smith
    Key Cast
  • Anwar Ali
    Key Cast
  • Colin Carswell
    Key Cast
  • John Sweet
    Key Cast
  • Natasha LaGrone
    Key Cast
  • Celia Mandela Rivera
    Key Cast
  • Syhaya Aviel
    Key Cast
  • Simeon Daise
    Key Cast
  • Elijah Rashad Reed
    Key Cast
  • Cameron La Diva Wright
    Key Cast
  • Kashif The Revealer Uqdah
    Key Cast
  • AJ Lovelace
    Director of Photography
  • Joey Scoma
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    41 minutes 26 seconds
  • Production Budget:
    20,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Larry Powell

Larry Powell is a true multi-hyphenate artist born and raised in South Central LA. As an Award-Winning Actor he has premiered some of the most exciting New American Plays of the past decade including The Christians by Lucas Hnath, The Legend of Georgia McBride by Matthew Lopez, Father Comes Home From The Wars by Suzan Lori Parks, Brokeology by Nathan Louis Jackson, While I Yet Live by Billy Porter, Curve of Departure by Rachel Bonds, Seared by Theresa Rebeck and Bronzeville by Aaron Woolfolk and Tim Toyama. As a Writer, he is the recipient of the 2021 IAMA Theatre Company Shonda Rhimes Unsung Voices Playwriting Award, 2020 Cornelia Street Playwriting Award, and is an inaugural 2021 Circle of Confusion Writers Discovery Fellow. His play “The Gaze”, a 2021 O'Neill NPC finalist, is also an award-winning digital series. “The Gaze Series” is a two-time 2021 Daytime EMMY Award Nominee, 2021 Webby Award Honoree and 2021 Micheaux Film Festival’s Best Comedic Digital Series Winner. He also Wrote/Directed/Starred In/Produced his debut experimental feature film project “Mother’s Milk: A Film Quilt” (2021 Seattle International Film Festival’s New American Cinema Special Jury Prize). He’s a Story Editor on hit, EMMY Nominated TV Sitcom “The Ms. Pat Show” (BET+). As a Director he has directed for the stage in LA/NYC/ATL. He recently directed the 2023 Best Audio Drama Audie award winning audio recording of Dominique Morisseau’s “Pipeline” for L.A. Theatre Works and is the Associate Producer/Casting Director for the 2023 Best Audiobook Nom Audie audio adaption of the graphic novel WAKE by Rebecca Hall. Proud Adjunct Lecturer at USC's School of Dramatic Arts, Graduate of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama and Founder of FreeTheArts.org. Stay tuned for upcoming works @thepowelloflove on IG.

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