Sat Mar 3, 2018 – 12:00 pm | Bushel & Peck’s
American Paradise
Directed by Joe Talbot
Narrative Short
USA | 18 min | 2017
Featuring characters from the upcoming Sundance-supported feature-film THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO, AMERICAN PARADISE is the unfortunately true story of Albert Buel, a (very) white man, whose brooding desperation leads him to rob a bank in a hyper-realistic ‘black-guy-mask.’ For Albert, it is not only an attempt to escape his depressed, small-town life; it is way to become someone else. But when the mask won’t come off his face, things go from black to blue.
Joe Talbot
Director, Writer
Joe Talbot is a fifth-generation San Franciscan whose emerging body of work has been recognized by beloved auteur Guy Maddin as “gorgeous, powerful and moving.” He received a fellowship to the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters Lab with his debut feature-film, The Last Black Man in San Francisco (currently in development), and was recently profiled in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces issue, as among the top new filmmakers to watch. Perhaps most proudly, though, for the lover of Old Hollywood, Talbot’s work has shown at San Francisco’s last two remaining cinema palaces: The Castro Theatre and The Roxie Theatre.
