Join us for an intimate wine & cheese reception in our Library, for our "Meet the Artist" with Artists in Residence, writer Chazz Chitwood and filmmaker Nefertiti Nguvu. RSVP is required to attend; click the TICKETS link to add your name to our list; space is very limited.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Chazz Chitwood is a 28 year old gay writer living in North Miami Beach. He has his BA and JD from University of Miami, and is a current MFA candidate at Florida International University. Miami-raised, Chazz is writing poetry, lyric essay, and fiction with an eye towards gender, sexuality, male relationships, hybridism, transhumanism, myth, science, and science fiction.
Nefertite Nguvu is a graduate of New York’s School of Visual Arts, where she obtained a B.F.A in Film. Her thesis project at SVA won the award for outstanding screenplay. Nefertite has written, produced and directed several narrative shorts: “I Want You,” “The End of Winter,” and the soon to be released films: “Myself When I Am Real,” and “The Last Two Lovers At The End Of The World.” Amongst other web-based programming, Nefertite also directed a ten-part web series featuring Queen Latifah for Cover Girl and Flavor Unit Entertainment entitled 'U.N.I.T.Y. Re-ignighted', 'Love Star' a mini music documentary, as well as an eight-part web series entitled 'Black America Again' featuring Academy Award winning musician/actor Common for Universal Music and Freedom Road Productions. As writer/director/producer, Nefertite made her feature film debut with “In The Morning,” a film about love and its inevitable change/decline charting the emotional anatomy of several relationships over the course of one day. “In The Morning” delves into the emotional landscape of contemporary black life in a way rarely seen in modern cinema. The film debuted at the Urban World Film Festival in New York City and won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film. After a string of successful film festival screenings across the country and in Paris, Rome and Johannesburg, the film also won the award for Best International Film at the Terra Di Siena Film Festival in Italy, Best Narrative Feature at the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia, and Best Feature Film and Best Overall at the Bronzelens Film Festival in Atlanta. “In The Morning” is now available worldwide via Video on Demand.