Nicole Franklin's Title VII Feature Film Selected for Urbanworld 20th Anniversary Film Festival's Spotlight Presentation: "Clips & Conversation"

    NEW YORK, NY, September 06, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Title VII (#TitleVIIFilm), the premiere narrative feature film of award-winning filmmaker Nicole Franklin, was highly vetted and chosen for a Spotlight presentation slot at the Urbanworld 20th Anniversary Film Festival. Title VII "Clips & Conversation" including the first public clips of the film followed by a panel discussion, will take place on Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 5:30pm at AMC Empire 25 (Theatre #12), 234 West 42nd Street near Times Square. This groundbreaking event is open to the public! Tickets are only $16.50. Group sales are also available.

Title VII Film, a presentation of EPIPHANY Inc. and Stuart Films in collaboration with FDUFilm and Co-Produced by Lisa Durden, focuses on same-race discrimination, a prevalent, yet rarely discussed issue in the workplace. This multicultural production, screenplay by Nicole Franklin and Craig T. Williams and adapted from the novel Within The Walls by Daisy M. Jenkins, was shot in just eight days on a micro-budget. The film was staffed by women production professionals, lead by director Nicole Franklin and director of photography Cybel Martin, and assisted by the FDUFilm student crew.

"I am extremely excited that Title VII was chosen for this Spotlight presentation," said Franklin. "Just two months ago, we were shooting the film in New Jersey. I can't think of a better venue than Urbanworld 20 to present initial clips, discuss the filmmaking process and focus on this serious work discrimination issue."

The post-screening panel will include Franklin, members of the cast and crew, and Dr. Jeff Gardere --"America's Psychologist" -- who will provide insight into the psychological effects of #SameRaceDiscrimination. Gardere has been seen on Today, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, as well as CNN and MSNBC.

SYNOPSIS: She's powerful, black and female. But at her firm, blacks need not apply.

The film focuses on the powerful black, female CEO of an IT consulting firm with no black employees, covering a single day. It starts with an incident that reminds the CEO of her "place" in our racially-charged society, details problems with a pending account that could make or break the firm, and includes the appearance of a mystery man determined to turn her life upside down.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned employment discrimination based on sex, race, color and national origin. Yet, discrimination is still part of US corporate culture 52 years later.

Nicole Franklin is an award-winning filmmaker. During her 25 years in the industry, she has been a television director, editor, educator, and contributing writer to such publications as The Good Men Project, Toronto-based ByBlacks.com and NBCBLK. Her company EPIPHANY Inc. has been producing independent films for over 17 years for cable networks including Showtime, BET, IFC, Nickelodeon, Sundance Channel, FUBU TV and kweliTV. In addition to TITLE VII, Franklin's other credits include The Double Dutch Divas!, Journeys In Black: The Jamie Foxx Biography, Kids Around the World, Black Enterprise Business Report, Gershwin & Bess: A Dialogue with Anne Brown and the 10-chapter series Little Brother.

Stuart Films, founded by Emelyn Stuart, is dedicated to educating, inspiring and empowering the independent filmmaking community. Stuart is the founder of Stuart Film Group and the Oktober Film Festival in New York City. Her producing credits include the award-winning short film Wings and Beer, the network broadcast of the short film Heads or Tails, and the wildly successful award-winning web series 12 Steps to Recovery (Punch TV). Along with TITLE VII, Stuart Films has two more features on the production slate for 2016.

Lisa Durden is the founder of Lisa Durden Unlimited Productions, a multimedia NJ based company specializing in creating content across various platforms for television, film, the web and live audiences. Recent projects include Co-Producer of the provocative, feature film TITLE VII; Producer of ImageNation's annual, star studded, Revolution Awards; Associate Producer of the award winning PBS' feature documentary, Soul Food Junkies; Associate Producer of Sundance Channel's critically acclaimed, five-part docu-series Brick City 1 (Director: Mark Levin & Executive Producer: Forest Whitaker); Executive Producer/Director of award-winning feature documentary, PROJECT WOW: Men On The Down Low, which broadcast in short form on the BET J series Black Stories, to name a few.

FDUFilm students work with the most up-to- date professional industry equipment from HD digital cameras and industry standard lighting and grip equipment to Avid, Premier and Final Cut editing software, as well as AfterEffects and Entertainment Partners production software. The program is adapted to better reflect the reality of the industry, resulting in a higher percentage of FDUFilm graduates finding professional work within a year after graduation.

Title VII Partners include:

Creatively Speaking
Harlem Brewing Company
Imagenation Cinema Foundation
Minority Women Veterans
Ndolo Films

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