John Threat here, as per usual on the verge of doing meth...

There is one here at Vibe  Magazines Online Site:

Vibe Online

Here is another shorter more personal one at this directors site:

SupaProducer

It's a fucking living....

Oh, I'll be casting soon for two new projects shooting this summer. I'm very excited by it. I'll let you know more shortly! It's July 4th weekend, and I'm not shooting jack shit, except drinking huge amounts of liquor and throwing it all up silently between parked cars.

Yeah dude! Dead Prez: Bigger Than Hip Hop : airs tonight on Starz! Im excited and I'm going to have a small screening at my little cramped apartment in New York City. We are going to watch the film while we drink over priced californa sparkling wine in plastic cups and blue tortillia chips (they are blue so they must be healthy!)

We probably will do goofy things like dunk our light meters in salsa, or back-focus our lenses on someones secondary sexual characteristics while we wait for it to air! I have a penchant for being flippant, but when it comes to work, I am deadly serious.

I'd like to thank Starz for the commitment to showing this film unedited and uncensored in an age where media dictacts what you can and cannot know.

This film is important because any revolution or change needs a sound track. Music plays a part in love, good times, the harvest, and even war. In the 60's and 70's we had music that inspired a generation to make a change. Now we have music that is about nothing, consequently, we have a generation that is about nothing. It's one of the most compelling and powerful ways to human beings can communicate ideas and relay emotions. A gift of an evolved sense of higher self. Enter Dead Prez: A group that is self-reflexive enough to know that this shit is Bigger Than Hip Hop. They have a huge following, but you'd never know it watching MTV or listening to the radio, why are they silenced, while groups who sign lyrics or rap about absolutely nothing are allowing to permeate the airwaves? This film examines this and pulls no punches in this regard. Dead Prez: Bigger Than Hip Hop.

If you want to know how corporate media silences artists who are progressive or political, watch this film.
If you want to know more about Dead Prez, watch this film
If you want to know about the Bay Area hip hop scene, watch this film.
If you want to know more about the Panthers, watch this film.
If you want to see how to film a concert, watch this film.
If you want to hear great lyrics over hot beats, watch this film.
If you are concerned about the environment and healthy living, watch this film.
If you are concerned about your community, watch this film.
If you are concerned about misogyny in music and everyday life, watch this film
If you really want to see what hip hop is all about, watch this film.
If you want to see footage shot in glorious HD, watch this film.
If you want to see how to film interviews TV Safe and for 16x9, Watch this film
If you want to ask me questions about the business, watch this film.
If you want to make a pass at me, watch this film.

Ok.. Tuesday here in New York it all goes down.

Live Performance From Dead Prez, open bar and a screening of the film I directed about Dead Prez and Progressive Hip Hop called "Dead Prez: Bigger Than Hip Hop". If you somehow don't make it to the Premiere on May 23rd, they are screening it at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem  June 2nd at the Revolution Awards before it airs on Starz In Black and Starz on June 9th. Check your local cable listings and ask for Starz In Black if you don't have it already.

Big up to Dead Prez, Kamel Bell, Jeremy Glick, Melvin Van Peebles, Ellen Mednick, Giles Francis and Starz for making this film a reality and being bold enough to take chance on making the best looking and most dangerous concert documentary film made to date. I'm excited because it's my first project that is progressive in nature, which I have another one coming up this year which helps balance the more salacious material that I'm usually directing.

Below is a photo from the Atlanta Premiere. Thanks to ATL to making our time down there almost *too much* fun.

Coldest Winter Ever Episode 1:

Check out Episode 1: Winter explains how she is the top bitch.

Unforunately the HBO movie version of the book got cancelled, but here is a sneak peak of some screen tests of an actress trying out for the role that I directed. You can see it here. I broke it up into 6 mini-episodes and I'll post one a week. Spread them around. Let me know what you think.


The book was brilliant, and it really should come out as a film.

The edit on Dead Prez: Bigger Than Hip Hop is almost finished. It will premiere in June on Starz In Black network.

The network liked it so much they are giving it a theatrical premiere in NY, SF and Atlanta. It closes the Atlanta Hip Hop Film Festival right before the awards ceremony.

I don't have any clips to show yet, but we shot it in HD and Dead Prez looks great and a lot of people will be surprised about who they really are. I certainly learned a lot about Dead Prez, Black Panthers, the bay area hip hop scene and tons of other things. Check it out when you get a chance or come thru to the Atlanta hip hop festival and we can build.