What follows is your basic wise-old-queen-instructs-naive-young-upstart narrative, with all the important lessons that genre implies: Remember where you’ve come from. Later, Perry recognizes this man as an inhabitant of the homeless shelter where he works and discovers that he’s Bruce Nugent, a lesser-known survivor from the legendary Harlem Renaissance artistic movement.
While Perry’s hanging with his straight homie Marcus, an aspiring spoken word artist, an older man lays down some rhymes on the two. Perry (Anthony Mackie) is a young, gifted and black student and emerging painter who’s been thrown out of his family’s house, is looking for love and encounters resistance when he brings up gay issues in his black studies class. So its special fundraising screening by Toronto’s Inside Out Film And Video Fest to mark Black History Month feels appropriate, even if the film itself is a bit stiff. Rating: NNN Rating: NNNNNīrother to brother, about a young gay black artist struggling to find a voice, has won a bunch of awards from various North American gay and lesbian film festivals. For details, see Indie & Rep Film, page 95. Tonight (Thursday, February 3) at the Bloor Cinema.
