IndieGoGo: Aaron

Aaron_Greer

Tuscaloosa, Alabama
United States

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Bio: I'm a professor at Loyola University in Chicago, where I teach film and video production. I have produced and directed documentary, narrative and experimental films, which have been screened in film festivals nationally and internationally. My first feature film Gettin’ Grown and a short experimental film Not Color Blind, Just Near Sighted have won numerous awards in screenings around the country.

I was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but earned my BA in history from Washington University and got my MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University. I've worked for the St. Louis Black Repertory Theater, taught high school, and served as a documentary researcher for Eyes on the Prize producer, Henry Hampton. From 2002 to 2008 I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. In 2005 I received the Media and Photography Fellowship from the Alabama State Council of the Arts.

I love film’s power to shape perception. My inspirations are Spike Lee, John Sayles, Abbas Kiarostami and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, who foreground reality over fantasy and make films intended to challenge – not just entertain.

A central goal of my work is to portray the lives of African-Americans – especially children – in authentic, complex ways, as opposed to the usual limiting on-screen representations.

IndieGoGo URL: http://www.indiegogo.com/Aaron_Greer

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Flying Away trailer

Through interviews, rehearsal footage and beautifully filmed performances, "Flying Away" celebrates the work of nationally renowned choreographer and dance professor, Cornelius Carter, whose emotional choreography and passionate teaching illustrate the joys and complexities of creating art in the deep South.

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I check the monitor

The interior for the shoot was my mother's garage. The weekend was freezing, but the actors, crew and equipment kept right on ticking.

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Official Fruit of the Tree website

Our site's still under construction, but you can watch a video there and read the history of this project.

Official Gettin Grown Website Grown Website

Now you can "own" Grown! Released by Film Life & Warner Bros. Home Video, you can buy it through our website, at Target, Wal-Mart, and Blockbuster, and at many online retailers such as Amazon.com.

Also on our website educators will find several downloadable curricula designed for late elementary & middle school students, high school students, and for parents in parenting classes.

The DVD contains fun bonus features as well.

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