Early Riser

Early Riser

5 mins | Drama | Sept. 8, 2011

This short is based on Chester Himes’s novel Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) and its adaptation for the screen by Ossie Davis in 1970. The cotton in the novel and film comes from the region around Columbus, Mississippi. Shot in noir-style, the film focuses on the scene when detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones interrogate Lo-Boy, an artist/hustler, about the event around the demise of his friend Early Riser.

Early Riser

5 mins | Drama | Sept. 8, 2011

Early Riser
This short is based on Chester Himes’s novel Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) and its adaptation for the screen by Ossie Davis in 1970. The cotton in the novel and film comes from the region around Columbus, Mississippi. Shot in noir-style, the film focuses on the scene when detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones interrogate Lo-Boy, an artist/hustler, about the event around the demise of his friend Early Riser.
Producers Picture Palace Pictures, Trich Arts
Original title Early Riser
Directors Kahlil Pedizisai, Kevin Jerome Everson
Writers Kevin Jerome Everson

Cast

James McGilbray

as Gravedigger Jones

Dawon Owens

as Lo-Boy #1

Robert Stewart

as Lo-Boy #2