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Blue Owl bartender Charles Hardwick demonstrates how to make a "Jules Winnfield."

Paris DuRanté

Rohan Sen

Rohan Sen is a writer/director/editor. He was awarded a scholarship to study physics, but after taking an undergraduate Third World Film class at UCLA, he decided to be a film director. His films have screened at film festivals across the globe. His short film SHANTI won the BEST SHORT FILM PRIZE at the 2001 Doubletake Documentary Festival. He has also edited two feature films, HOW I KILLED A SAINT and JAKE GETS PAID. HAPPY SAUCE was shot and inspired by the events and emotions during the final months of his wife's pregnancy.

Andre Morton

A Brooklyn native and former front man for New York based rock and roll band Ratchethead, Andre relocated to Oakland California in 2001. Andre then began to pursue his lifelong dream of making narrative films. In 2002 he received a STAND grant from San Francisco’s Film Arts Foundation to produce the experimental film “America Remembers” - a critique of mainstream media post 9-11. Andre has worked as director and cinematographer on a variety of documentary and narrative films including PSA’s for The American Cancer Society, and The Greater NY Hospital Association. He currently resides in Brooklyn.

James Francis Richards

James Richards has a BFA in Commercial Art and Illustration from St. John's University and a MFA in film production from New York University’s Graduate Film Program. He has directed several short films one of which, Warm Tide, starring Quentin Chestnut and Gilbert Glenn Brown, tied for first in the short film competition at the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in Oakland in 1997 and was invited to screen at the first annual Martha’s Flavor Fest in 1998. He has written for Blackfilm.com and co-created with Tish Benson the Poetry on Video series on the Urban Box Office. Currently he is on staff at the film department of New York University.

Ed DuRanté

Ed DuRanté is a graduate of NYU’s Graduate Film Program where he was awarded the Graduate/Professional Opportunity Fellowship, NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program where he received the ASCAP Foundation Yip Harburg Scholarship and Yale University. His work has been produced by Talking Drum Theatre Co., the Vineyard Theatre, Theatre for the New City and Playwrights Horizons where he was an original member of the Black Playwrights Unit. His play “Homeboys” is part of the literary anthology Patchwork of Dreams. He directed the webseries “Wire” for Eyestudio.Net. and has written, produced and directed several short films including “America”, which was a Wasserman Award Finalist and the recipient of awards for Editing, Acting and Production Design. He taught lyric and playwriting at the Musical Theatre Writing Workshop at London’s Theatre Royal Stratford East and he was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Filmmaking. Presently, he is in post-production with his first feature film, the black comedy “JAKE GETS PAID.”

Blue Owl Flicks

Thursday, October 29, 2009

KIELY WILLIAMS: "Make Me A Drink" teaser

Thursday, September 20, 2007

GRIZZLER written & directed by ANDRE MORTON

ANOTHER DOLLAR written & directed by PARIS DuRANTE

TWO MANHATTANS written & directed by ED DuRANTE

HAPPY SAUCE written & directed by ROHAN SEN

GRIZZLER written & directed by ANDRE MORTON

Monday, September 17, 2007

Blue Owl Flicks Pours Maker's Mark: Monday, Sept. 24th @ 7:00pm @ Village East Cinema, 181 2nd Ave., New York City

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