Monique and her husband Sidney Hicks are also executive producers of the film. The film is directed by Patrick Ian Polk in an adaption of the novel by Larry Duplechan. This is a coming of age story for that young African American boy or girl who struggles with their sexual orientation. “Blackbird” is a story that centers on a church choir singer, portrayed by Julian Walker, in a small Mississippi town who feels like a misfit as he struggles with his sexual awakening and the realization that he is gay. Following the red carpet was the movie screening and question and answer session, followed by a private media briefing and after party. The closing kicked off with a red carpet where the cast and crew posed for photos for the media, as well as other celebrities who walked the red carpet in support of the film. LOS ANGELES, CA- On Sunday, February 16 at Rave Cinemas in Los Angeles, the Pan African Film Festivalclosed out it’s festivities with the premiere of the film “ Blackbird”. The film was directed by Patrick Ian Polk in an adaption of the novel by Larry Duplechan. He is a deacon at the Metropolitan Community Church in the Valley in North Hollywood, California.PHOTO CAPTION: The cast and crew of “Blackbird”, which stars Isaiah Washington and Monique. Larry Duplechan is the author of four previous novels, including Blackbird, published in a new edition by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2006. He is best known for his novels Blackbird, adapted in 2014 by Patrik-Ian Polk as a film starring Mo'Nique and Isaiah Washington, 1 and Got 'til It's Gone, which won an award in the Gay Romance category at the 21st Lambda Literary Awards.
Got ’Til It’s Gone is a queer romantic comedy for the ages. Larry Duplechan (born December 30, 1956, in Los Angeles, California) is an American novelist. In the midst of a midlife crisis, he falls for a much younger man with some serious Daddy issues throughout it all, Johnnie Ray tries to look at love (and his life) from both sides now (to borrow a phrase from his idol Joni Mitchell). When we first met Johnnie Ray in the novel Blackbird, he was a gay teenager in love with the star of a high school play now he’s forty-eight, still handsome and gym-built, but admittedly vain and looking down the short road to fifty. This is the first novel by Larry Duplechan in fifteen years, and the fourth to feature his alter ego protagonist Johnnie Ray Rousseau, a gay black man of Louisiana Creole stock. "With his gift for language, eye for detail and consistent tone of voice, Larry Duplechan has the makings to be a major literary figure." - Edge Publications
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