Booker T. Mattison
Booker T. Mattison is a 4-Time AALBC.com Bestselling Author
Booker T. Mattison is an author and filmmaker who wrote the screenplay for and directed the film adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's classic story "The Gilded Six Bits," which aired on Showtime. It starred Chad Coleman ("The Wire," "I Hate My Teenage Daughter"), T'keyah Keymah ("That's So Raven," "Cosby," "In Living Color"), Wendell Pierce ("Treme","The Wire," "Ray") and Novella Nelson ("The Antwone Fisher Story"). The Hollywood Reporter said of the film that, "Mattison's direction and feel for her characters match up to Hurston’s sterling piece of fiction…full of atmosphere and strongly developed characters."
Mattison's second novel Snitch received a starred review in Publishers
Weekly that said, "Author and filmmaker Mattison's sophomore outing reads
like its ready for screen adaptation… Mattison has a superb ear and his
skills keep on growing." Producer Stephanie Allain Bray ("Hustle and Flow,"
"Black Snake Moan" and the forthcoming "We the Peeples") is attached to
produce the film adaptation of the book.
Mattison received his Master of Fine Arts in film from New York University
and his Bachelor of Science in mass communication from Norfolk State
University.
Mattison has taught Literary Criticism at the College of New Rochelle in New
York, film production at Brooklyn College and Advanced Directing,
Screenwriting and Directing Actors at Regent University in Virginia.
Booker T. Mattison also directed, Produced and wrote the film adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston’s short story The Gilded Six Bits.
"All
that glitters ain’t gold" is the moral of this story of marriage
and materialism in the rural south during the Great Depression.
Matrimony could not have been better for Joe and Missie May
Banks. A year into their marriage they were able to have a home
on the outskirts of town and money saved up for their future,
which included children. That is until Otis D. Slemmons moves
into town, a big shot from the big city who opens an ice cream
parlor. He is a rich, well-dressed, smooth talker unlike any
other man in their small town.
A husband, a wife, and an outsider become interconnected in Zora
Neale Hurston’s The Gilded Six Bits.
Total running time for the film is 28 minutes 55 seconds.
Zora Neale Hurston, also called ’Queen of the Harlem
Renaissance’ was an acclaimed author, folklorist, poet and
anthropologist. One of the most published women writers in the
30s, she authored more than 50 articles and short stories, four
novels, two books on folklore, an autobiography, and several
plays. She is best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching
God. The Gilded Six Bits was her first published work.
Film Stars:
Chad Coleman (The Wire)
T’keyah Crystal Keymah (In Living Color)
Wendell Pierce (Treme’)
Novella Nelson (The Antwon Fisher Story)
Original score by Ray Chew
You can visit his website at www.bookertmattison.com
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