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Compensation is a american film of genre Drama directed by Zeinabu irene Davis released in USA on 1 january 1999
Compensation (1999)
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Add to a movie listCompensation is award-winning independent film about a young African American couple at the beginning and end of the twentieth century. The film is produced and directed by Zeinabu irene Davis and the screen play was written by Marc Arthur Chéry. It stars Michelle A. Banks and John Earl Jelks in the leading roles. The film was shot throughout Chicago beginning July 1993 and wrapped up early August.
The film premièred at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and ran in the Dramatic Feature category. The film was screened in San Diego, California at the Museum of Photographic Arts. It was also screened at IFP the Independent Film Market in New York, New York and the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles.
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Inspired by a 1906 poem from early African American writer, Paul Laurence Dunbar, the unique drama explores aspects of Black culture in both turn of the century and present day Chicago in two parallel love stories, both about the relationship between a deaf woman and a hearing man. The narrative revolves about two couples, Malindy and Arthur, and Malaika and Nico, respectively taking place at the beginning and end of the twentieth century. Both pairs revel in the splendor or romance and a possible lifetime commitment only to be forced to deal with the dreaded disease of their difference times: tuberculosis and AIDS. The multi-layered film tackles various issues that arise in the relationship of the "mixed" couples.Comments
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