Tight Jeans: The Short Film [Video]

Its always great to see YEBIES across the global creating and producing amazing products that get embraced not by our community but by those who don't always understand our story. This short film by Destiny Ekaragha of the UK is a great example of this. Winner of The London Rushes Soho Film Festival Awards for Best Newcomer in 2009, Tight Jeans was Ekaragha's debut film.

TIGHT JEANS is a light comedy that touches on modern attitudes towards other cultures. It explores the ignorance we tend to have of one another, sometimes without even realising it.
Three black teenagers are becoming frustrated while waiting for their friend. A young white lad walks past wearing super tight jeans. The boys look on until one of them asks the pivotal question, "How can a man wear jeans that tight?" This sparks a hilarious debate about race and culture.

Accolades:

• Selected and granted funding as one of the 6 short films to represent Lewisham, Southwark & Lambeth Film and Arts Councils in association with Film London.
• Premiered at and was voted Best Short Film at the Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival by the Observer newspaper.
• Won Best Newcomer Award at The London Rushes Soho Film Festival 2009,
• Runner up status at the Buffalo San Black and Asian Film Festival 2008
• Official Selection at The Pan African Film Festival 2009 in Los Angeles,
• Africa in the Picture Film Festival in Amsterdam
• The Athens 15th International Film Festival.
• In March 2009 TIGHT JEANS was chosen as the download film of the month by The BFI for their members.

Throwback Thursday: Cross Colours

Cross Colours is a clothing brand that was launched in 1989 by Carl Jones. It was created on the premise of producing “clothes without prejudices”. The clothing was used to broadcast political and social messages to the youth. Cross Colours clothing became more than just a fashion statement at its peek during the early 1990s. Cross Colours was one of the first companies to make urban gear fashionable to the masses and played a huge part during the afrocentric phase of hip-hop's golden era.

Play Cloths Joins The Haiti Relief Effort

The Clipse and Play Cloths have joined the rest of the support to do their part with the Haiti relief effort.

Haiti faced a natural disaster of unprecedented proportion, an earthquake unlike anything the country has ever experienced. The magnitude 7.0 earthquake - and several very strong aftershocks - struck only 10 miles from Port-au-Prince. Over 2 million people in Port-au-Prince faced this catastrophe alone and idle hands will only make this tragedy worse. Many people across the country have already started to contribute to the Haiti Relief Effort and Play Cloths must do its part as well. Sometimes it is very confusing when donating due to the high level of corruption within certain charities but in this instance we feel that WYCLEF JEAN is a man we can trust.

So starting today, Friday January 15th @ 3pm est, Play Cloths will release a signature Jack logo t-shirt designed for the Haiti Relief Effort. 100% OF THE PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED to the YELE HAITI EARTHQUAKE FUND (www.yele.org) which is an organization supported by WYCLEF. In order to send the donations as fast as we can, the Haitian Jack t-shirt will only be on sale from Friday, January 15th to Friday, January 22nd (one week only). We will be shipping Friday the following week. We cannot stress enough what a human disaster this is and every little bit we can give helps. We can only hope that our efforts combined with efforts from the rest of the world will help the people of Port-au-Prince immediately as well as create a better Haiti for the future.

Thank you all for your patronage.

Sincerely,

PC

To get the shirt and support go HERE