Brother to Brother

USA | 2024 | 94 minutes | English | 20th Anniversary Screening

Director, Writer: Rodney Evans | Cast: Anthony Mackie, Roger Robinson, Alex Burns

Kicked out by his homophobic parents and distancing himself from a racist boyfriend, a college student befriends an elderly impoverished man he discovers was an important figure in the Harlem renaissance.

About Rodney Evans:

Rodney Evans is a fiction and documentary film writer, director and producer. His debut fiction feature Brother to Brother won the Special Jury Prize in Drama at the Sundance Film Festival. His feature length film, Vision Portraits, had its world premiere in the Documentary Feature Competition at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival and won the Jury Award for Best Documentary at San Francisco’s Frameline Film Festival.

Evans was the recipient of the 2019 Frameline Award for LGBTQ+ representation, a Sundance Momentum Fellowship for 2020 and a Ford/Mellon Disability Futures Fellowship for 2021. He is an NEH/Firelight Media Spark Fund Recipient for 2022. He earned a BFA in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University and an MFA from The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Film/Video Production.