The Passage of Sun
Three brothers challenge the Convict Leasing System of forcing African American men into prison in order to continue providing slave labor and county revenue in Alabama following the Civil War.
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Aaron BraxtonWriter
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Project Type:Screenplay
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Genres:Historical Drama, Drama
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Number of Pages:94
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Country of Origin:United States
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
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2022 Nashville Film Festival
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2022 Script Summit
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2022 DTLA Film Festival
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2022 San Diego Movie Awards
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2022 Orlando International Film Festival
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2022 100 Screenplays
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2022 NOVA Festival
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2022 NOVA Festival
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2022 Film Invasion Festival
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2022 Emerging Screenwriters Historical Genre Competition
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2022 Chicago Screenplay Awards
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2022 Script Summit
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2022 International Gullah Festival
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2022 Indo Global International Film Festival
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2022 Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices
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2022 Filmmatic Pitch Now Screenplay Competition
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2022 Southern California Screenplay Competition
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2022 Final Draft Big Break
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2022 Austin Film Festival
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2022 Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition
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2022 Great American Script Competition
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2022 Filmmatic Inroad Screenwriting Fellowship
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2022 Emerging Screenwriter Drama Competition
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2022 National Black Film Festival
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2022 LA Under the Stars
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2022 NY Independent Film Festival
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2022 Florida Script Challenge
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2022 Voices Rising Film Festival
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2021 Urban Action Showcase
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2021 San Diego Movie Awards
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2021 Sherman Oaks Film Festival
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2021 Black Feedback Festival
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2021 Like It Film Festival
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2021 Influx Film Awards
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2021 The Monkey Bread Tree Film Festival
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2021 Barnstorm Screenplay Competition
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2021 Miami Screenplay Awards
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2021 Boston Screenplay Awards
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2021 Action on Film MegaFest Film Festival
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2021 Hollywood International Diversity Film Festival
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2021 Toronto Film and Script Awards
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2021 Peachtree Village International Film Festival
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2021 LA Live Film Festival
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2021 Red Flight Pictures Screenplay Awards
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2021 Los Angeles Screenplay Awards
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2021 Ojai Film Festival Screenplay Awards
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2021 Story Pros International Screenplay Competition
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2021 Austin Table Read My Screenplay
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2021 Big Apple Film and Screenplay Competition
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2021 ScreenCraft Drama Competition
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2021 San Pedro Film Festival
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2021 Atlanta International Screenplay Awards
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2021 Circa Historical Screenplay Competition
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2021 NYC Screenplay Awards
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2021 New Age Cinema & Scripts Festival
Official Selection
Aaron Braxton is a multifaceted, renaissance artist whose HS music teacher wrote in his yearbook, "It's tough to be talented. You spread yourself too thin." Blessed with a multitude of talents, Aaron writes compelling stories that speak to the complicated and universal lives of African American families through several genres and platforms...and he credits his music teacher for being absolutely wrong
As a screenwriter, his screenplays, The Passage of Sun, To Lie Beneath, A Long Way From Sunday and The Longest Goodbye as well as his TV pilot, The Sub are among the most awarded scripts in the competition and film festival circuits. In addition, his short film, The Skin I’m In, has won several national and international film awards.
Also an accomplished playwright, his acclaimed solo play, Did You Do Your Homework? ran a record breaking 9 months at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and garnered a “NAACP Image Award,” and an “International Gala Star,” from Romania. Other notable plays include BROKEN, which won a “Max K. Lerner,” and “Inroads Fellowship,” and has been a finalist in several playwriting competitions, as well as Belafonte Unauthorized, a solo play about the legendary Harry Belafonte and Tear Down the Walls, a Black History play for teens.
Aaron has also authored several books; markedly the 2019 Emma Children’s Book Award nominee, Jesse and the Caterpillar Who Got Its Wings.
As an actor, he has starred, guest starred and co-starred in many films, television and stage plays including the upcoming releases of the 2023 films 20 Minutes and The Laundress.
Hailing from Roxbury, MA, now living in Los Angeles, he holds a B.A. from SDSU and a M.A. from USC.
Forge a path that others may follow.