HairKutt, independent filmmaker Curtis Elliotts award winning documentary about four friends from St. Louis, Missouri who travel to the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee in the hopes of curing one of them from the throes of heroin addiction, won the Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary at the Independent Black Film Festival (IBFF) held in Atlanta, Georgia March 12th-19th.
The griping documentary was one of three films up for the top overall documentary award (voted on by a panel of judges), which went to Programas, a riveting documentary about selected Brazilian prostitutes.
The movie was received very well, Elliott said about the showcase in Atlanta. He added the audience choice award was validation that he has an unpolished golden nugget in his filmmaking repertoire. The people spoke and they said of all the other documentaries shown in this particular film festival, HairKutt was the best one. (The award) was the peoples wish.
HairKutt is the Reel Life story of Bryant HairKutt Johnson, a heroin addict of more than 15 years. The documentary takes many twists and turns as HairKutt becomes so debilitated from the withdrawal of the poisonous drug that he walks away from the rented cabin used as a drug rehab facility to return to the streets of St. Louis (more than a ten hour drive away) and the source of his addiction: heroin.
The filmmaker, Curtis Elliott of Reel Life Films, is currently on an anti-drug campaign throughout the United States and Canada. He has already presented his message and film in cities such as Boston, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Santa Monica, California, Los Angeles and New York.
Targeting audiences from middle school to high school (11-years-old to 17-years-old) and college aged youth to young adults (18-25), Mr. Elliott continues to book the film in theaters, social organizations, at-risk youth group homes, rehab facilities, middle and high schools and universities in the aforementioned region of the world.
Enclosed is media information on the film, which won Best Social Documentary at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in Los Angeles in March 2005 and Best Documentary Feature at Cinema St. Louis' Independent Filmmakers Showcase in July 2005.
The film made its St. Louis debut in front of a crowd of 700 at the famed Tivoli Theater in the University City, (MO) Loop on May 12th, 2005.
For more info or to view movie trailer, please visit http://www.itstoughtogetoffdrugs.com or Google Search keyword: HairKutt.
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