NOT BLACK ENOUGH
DIR. JERMAINE MANIGAULT 2021 / USA / 19 MINS
A young African American man struggling to find his identity within his community meets a persuasive relic of the past.
CREDITS
Written By JERMAINE MANIGAULT
Produced By JERMAINE MANIGAULT & ISAIAH VIOLANTE
Executive Produced By WANDA MANIGAULT
Edited By DANIEL ARENA
Director of Cinematography LARA AQEL
Sound By EDWARD PETERLIN & JALEN TOMPSON
Music By BILLY KENNEDY & MARCELL LANE
Featuring RASHED ANDERSON, YOHANCE BARTON, PATRICK DECILE, DARIUS FRYAR,
FELIPE GALGANNI, ANWAR GEORGE, COREY KNIGHT & ANDREW MANNING
OFFICIAL SELECTION
EMERGING LENS CULTURAL FILM FESTIVAL
Halifax, Canada
April 2021
Halifax, Canada
April 2021
TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL
Tallinn, Estonia
November 2020
Tallinn, Estonia
November 2020
AESTHETICA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
York, UK
November 2020
York, UK
November 2020
HOLLYSHORTS FILM FESTIVAL
Los Angeles, CA
November 2020
Los Angeles, CA
November 2020
L.A. SHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Los Angeles, CA
October 2020
Los Angeles, CA
October 2020
FLATPACK FESTIVAL
Birmingham, UK
May 2020
Birmingham, UK
May 2020
ABOUT JERMAINE MANIGAULT
Jermaine Manigault is an African American director, screenwriter, and producer. The son of a New York dancer and a Philadelphia writer, Jermaine studied psychology and film studies while working on sets as a production assistant. As a P.A., Jermaine began to write and experiment with visuals and courted investors for his debut short film, Language is Dead (2017). It went on to win the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film in New York at the Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema, and Best Screenplay at the Sydney Indie Film Festival in Sydney, Australia. After returning from the European premiere of Language is Dead in 2018, Jermaine traveled to Charleston, South Carolina to visit multiple slave plantations while writing his second short film, Not Black Enough (2020). On June 2nd, 2018, Jermaine visited the Joseph Manigault Museum, the plantation on which his direct ancestors were owned, lived, and died as slaves. On that soil, the script for Not Black Enough was written.
You can find Jermaine on his Instagram.